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Cova · 07-29-2003, 12:34 PM

Just to point out a few obvious points about this idea (well, obvious to me)...

1. Tracking who gets what and so on would simply go online into a persons permanent medical file, which all hospitals/clinics/etc. should have access to. At least here in Canada you need your healthcare number to get access to any kind of medical treatment, and those aren't easy to fake as far as I know (then again, as far as I know there isn't much demand for fake ones yet either, this could change that). If high security was required, it would be simple to implement something like putting a persons fingerprint into their medical file to ensure that each persons actual dosage is being tracked correctly.

2. You can't put these clinics far away from each other to prevent clinic-hopping, and at the same time have a clinic within easy travel of people who have no good form of transportation. Having enough clinics to meet the second requirement breaks the first requirement. Besides the fact that building a new chain of clinics for this purpose would be far too costly. If such a program were to be implemented it would require the use of existing clinics (again, here in Canada there are "Medicenters" all over the place) and a secuirity system similar to what I outlined in point 1 above would be required to prevent clinic-hopping.

However, even solving these problems, I disagree with the idea. There are already rehab programs in place, and prescription drugs available to help people with their addictions. More funding simply needs to be allocated to these things than prescribing the "hard" drugs themselves.

07-29-2003, 12:34 PM	#108
Cova Cooling Savant Join Date: May 2002 Location: Canada Posts: 247	Just to point out a few obvious points about this idea (well, obvious to me)... 1. Tracking who gets what and so on would simply go online into a persons permanent medical file, which all hospitals/clinics/etc. should have access to. At least here in Canada you need your healthcare number to get access to any kind of medical treatment, and those aren't easy to fake as far as I know (then again, as far as I know there isn't much demand for fake ones yet either, this could change that). If high security was required, it would be simple to implement something like putting a persons fingerprint into their medical file to ensure that each persons actual dosage is being tracked correctly. 2. You can't put these clinics far away from each other to prevent clinic-hopping, and at the same time have a clinic within easy travel of people who have no good form of transportation. Having enough clinics to meet the second requirement breaks the first requirement. Besides the fact that building a new chain of clinics for this purpose would be far too costly. If such a program were to be implemented it would require the use of existing clinics (again, here in Canada there are "Medicenters" all over the place) and a secuirity system similar to what I outlined in point 1 above would be required to prevent clinic-hopping. However, even solving these problems, I disagree with the idea. There are already rehab programs in place, and prescription drugs available to help people with their addictions. More funding simply needs to be allocated to these things than prescribing the "hard" drugs themselves.