The abuse of Vicodin or OxyContin or Percocet is legendary. No one in the medical industry cares...most political folks don’t care....and public doesn’t care. As for Bloomberg’s effort? Well...folks will just go and make reservations every three days to get their prescription...so doctors will make another ten to twenty percent on profit per year.
I am surprised New Yawk is far behind the times. Hospitals on the Mississippi Coast imposed similar restrictions to drug seekers in the early 1990s. They (the six larger hospitals) maintain and share a database of known drug seekers.
ER physicians are NOT primary care doctors and should prescribe only meds to treat acute ailments.
This is a common sense move for Bloomberg to make. This is the first thing he's done I can agree with.