BATON ROUGE – A new report found that more than 25,000 prescriptions were not filed in the state’s database.
By law, the Louisiana Board of Pharmacy must maintain an electronic system that monitors controlled substances.
“We identified more than 25,500 prescriptions dispensed during calendar year 2016 with outstanding errors that had not been released into Louisiana’s PMP as of November 2017,” according to the report.
The Prescription Monitoring Program, which was created in 2006, is supposed to keep track of all dangerous substances, but the audit found, among other things, that prescription drugs are being used to create street drugs like “Purple Drank” and a date rape drug.
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