{Kentucky}...A task force composed of officials from Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, and West Virginia designed to halt the flow of illegal prescription drugs across the borders of their states held its first meeting Wednesday in Ashland, Kentucky to discuss ways to share information gathered by their states' prescription drug monitoring programs. Governor Steve Beshear says Kentucky has a tremendous prescription drug problem, and the Interstate Prescription Drug Task Force will work to find prescribers, dispensers and patients who are exploiting the state's borders. Attorney General Jack Conway says police believe the majority of illegal pills in Kentucky come from other states. Earlier this month, Kentucky and Ohio began using a system that automatically exchanges prescription medication data.
