Senate Approves KASPER Move

{Frankfort, Kentucky}...Wednesday, the Senate passed a bill by a vote of 26-9 that would put the attorney general's office in charge of the state's prescription drug monitoring program, known as KASPER, a move intended to allow prosecutors in that office to review and identify doctors who overprescribe painkillers. The legislation that now returns to the House for final passage also requires pharmacists to record prescription information and allows that information to be shared with state and federal law enforcement authorities, physicians and pharmacists. The measure also forbids pain clinics from being owned by anyone other than licensed physicians.