 
11/18/2004 ACTION NEEDED
BEFORE THANKSGIVING! Stop “Big
Brother” from snooping around your medicine
cabinet! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ·
National All Schedules
Prescription Reporting Act (H.R. 3015) allows government and law enforcement to
monitor your prescriptions ·
Treats tens of
millions of patients as potential criminals ·
Give prosecutors &
law enforcement power to decide who is “deserving” of
medicines ·
Contact your Senators
this week and tell them to vote AGAINST this bill ·
Click-through to send
letter to your Senators in less than a minute. · Physicians: Print out flyer for your patients! ·
Please forward this
message to everyone. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Do you want the
government to have a record of every prescription you get? Every painkiller? Every anti-depressant?
Every sleeping pill? And then to
pass that information along to law enforcement to prosecute you and your doctor
if they don’t like what they find? The National All
Schedules Prescription Electronic Reporting Act (H.R. 3015) was passed by the
House, but hasn’t been passed yet in the Senate so we still have time to stop
it. While masquerading as a
law enforcement tool to help control the illegal use of painkillers, the
national bill would cast a net so wide that tens of millions of suffering
patients & doctors will be snared in suspicion. Not limited to prescriptions for
painkillers, it would create a central database affecting tens of millions who
are not even suspected of a crime.
And the information will be shared with state and local law
enforcement. Prosecutors and law
enforcement already second-guess doctors and prosecute them for prescribing “too
much” or if they decide the patient doesn’t “deserve”
treatment. Overzealous prosecutors
have already frightened many doctors out of prescribing pain treatment for the
almost 50 million patients who suffer from pain. We can’t let them do it to the rest of
us as well. Do you want law
enforcement deciding who “deserves” medicines? WE’VE MADE IT EASY TO
TAKE ACTION TODAY! Tell your Senators and
Senate Leader Bill Frist to vote against H.R. 3015, National All Schedules
Prescription Electronic Reporting Act. Tell them that you
don’t want to make every prescription that involves any type of scheduled drug
for anxiety, depression, insomnia, or pain readily accessible to the police and
potentially to employers, newspapers, and
blackmailers. KEEP BIG BROTHER OUT
OF OUR MEDICINE CABINETS! Everyone: We now have an easy,
one-step way for everyone to send a letter to your Senators, courtesy
of the All you need to do is click here. Enter your name and
address, and a letter will automatically be sent to your Senators, with your
signature. It takes about one minute. Doctors & health
care professionals: If you are a doctor,
CLICK
HERE to download a
one-page flyer to copy and distribute at your office and hospital starting
today! Materials are
posted for downloading at www.AAPSonline.org |