{Frankfort, Kentucky}...Doctors told lawmakers Wednesday that legislation passed earlier this year requiring physicians to tap into the state's prescription monitoring system to review their patients' drug histories is forcing legitimate patients to wait on pain medications under a the new law meant to shut down "pill mills." Lawmakers considered the new law a critical step in fighting prescription drug abuse in Kentucky where more people have been dying from overdoses than car wrecks, but doctors told lawmakers the bureaucratic red tape has become an issue in hospitals when patients clearly need medication quickly to ease their pain.
