DEA Wants Inside Your Medical Records to Fight the War on Drugs
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/06/10/dea-wants-inside-your-medical-records-to-fight-the-war-on-drugs.html
The feds are fighting to look at millions of private files
without a warrant, including those of two transgender men who
are taking testosterone. Marlon Jones was arrested for taking
legal painkillers, prescribed to him by a doctor, after a
double knee replacement. Jones, an assistant fire chief of
Utah's Unified Fire Authority, was snared in a dragnet pulled
through the state's program to monitor prescription drugs
after someone stole morphine from an ambulance in 2012. To
find the missing morphine, cops used their unrestricted access
to the state's Prescription Drug Monitor Program database to
look at the private medical records of nearly 500 emergency
services personnel--without a warrant.
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