Governor Brown said that he supports the idea of
requiring coroners to report prescription drug deaths to the medical board.
However, he vetoed it because of the cost. On Friday he signed two bills that
aimed towards the abuse of drugs. The third bill however, he vetoed it, this
could have helped the state’s medical board identify the doctors who are
irresponsible and have prescribed pills to their patients that eventually died.
This all started because many people were dying because of the prescribed pills
by doctors or overdose suicides. People were happy about the bills because they
would give” authorities better tools and broader powers to crack down on
problematic doctors.” Governor Brown said that he vetoed the bill because it
made an “unfunded mandate for the state, potentially in the millions of
dollars.” All of these bill signing was to help and stop those doctors that prescribe
pills to people that eventually kill them. This required money so they need to
work on the economy first in order to make change.
http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-0928-rx-reforms-20130928,0,6850019.story
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