Prowling in Your Medicine Cabinet
Who has access to your prescription drug records? Under a new drug monitoring program by the Washington state Health Department it looks like just about everyone. The program allows state, local, and federal law enforcement and prosecutors to access drug records. The law also permits doctors, pharmacists, health licensing and regulatory agencies, medical examiners and coroners, Medicaid officials, state officials who deal with worker's compensation, officials within the Department of Corrections, and officials of the Health Department, among others, to look at those records.
Hide Comments (0)
Editor's Note: As of February 29, 2024, commenting privileges on reason.com posts are limited to Reason Plus subscribers. Past commenters are grandfathered in for a temporary period. Subscribe here to preserve your ability to comment. Your Reason Plus subscription also gives you an ad-free version of reason.com, along with full access to the digital edition and archives of Reason magazine. We request that comments be civil and on-topic. We do not moderate or assume any responsibility for comments, which are owned by the readers who post them. Comments do not represent the views of reason.com or Reason Foundation. We reserve the right to delete any comment and ban commenters for any reason at any time. Comments may only be edited within 5 minutes of posting. Report abuses.
Please
to post commentsMute this user?
Ban this user?
Un-ban this user?
Nuke this user?
Un-nuke this user?
Flag this comment?
Un-flag this comment?