A new plan is being set for purchasing medications in Peoria, Ariz., this plan will require people to give their fingerprints before buying a medication from pharmacies, as the Phoenix suburb is thinking seriously about setting a new rule which requires the users of highly-abused drugs like OxyContin and Percocet to give not only their fingerprints but also a video tape showing them when they take the medicine…, the main goal of this new rule and it’s procedures is to prevent abusers from making any kind of illegal purchases to medications, even they want take the fingerprints of people who buy medication to their family member, however the civil rights advocates stated that their new method is considered a bad violation on the rights of privacy to people.
In his statement upon this issue, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said that the new decided law is not restricted to people who are suspected to use these medication in wrong ways, and also said that most of these people whose fingerprints will be taken, will never become suspected of criminal prosecution, in addition Arizona ACLU legal director Daniel Pochoda also stated in meeting of a pharmacy board that the aim from this law is to make pharmacies as “annexes for police stations” so that the police will ask the pharmacists to treat those customers as potential criminals.
But when it comes to pharmacists they also refuse to become a law officials, as a pharmacist who is a member in the pharmacy board, said that he doesn’t feel keen about noting patients taking chronic medications as abusers, and he also said that this is not what he was trained to do, although the officials do not agree with these pharmacists as the is a huge number which is growing day by day of abusers who usually take advantage of the regular non controlled system in pharmacies to get the dangerous, highly-addictive drugs, that is considered dangerous on the whole society due to their extreme side effects, and moths ago the Peoria Police Department warned people in a report about what they called a “huge black market” for OxyContin and other serious painkillers that is allegedly sweeping the nation, while others stated that the pharmaceutical industry should take some of the blame and responsibility as it gives highly-addictive drugs to patients in all conditions without control which makes people reliant on them.
