PRN: 4th Amendment Officially Dead
Prescription Drug Monitoring - 4th Amendment Officially Dead; Siobhan Reynolds; War on Doctors/Pain Crisis blog of the Pain Relief Network; 2007-12-05.
About:
Cops Become Drugstore Cowboys in VT; 4th Amendment Officially Dead
Maia Szalavitz; Huffington Post; 2007
See also:
Do We Really Want e-Script Monitoring?
Excerpt:
“Says Siobhan Reynolds, founder of the indispensable Pain Relief Network, “We saw from the beginning of the government’s shift to the “war on prescription drug abuse” that this was where this whole thing was headed.
“Until now, the systematic violation of patient’s 4th Amendment rights was more or less hidden from public view.
“Now, the Vermont police have pulled back the veil for all of us to see the vicious witch hunt being perpetrated against people unfortunate enough to require Controlled Substances for the treatment of serious illness.”
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