The recent hacking of the Virginia prescription database is affecting some patients’ ability to obtain prescription medications, according to a report filed by the Associated Press:
A House panel learned that powerful drugs such as Oxycontin, Valium, Vicodin and Ritalin are being withheld because pharmacists can’t check with the prescription drug database that still allows limited access.
So in the name of preventing abuse, the state compiled a database and required pharmacists to use it. But when the database was breached and the system broke, instead of returning to pre-database methods on an interim measure, the state continues to require compliance — to the detriment of patients?
Brilliant.