“The Right to Know” Normal Rockwell 1968. NYT Featured story, public access screencap accessed on 2/10/2019

The True Motivation Behind the Opioid Crisis-Profit off PDMPs and Profiling, Private Data Theft

Part II of Profiling & Data Theft — Our “Clueless” Elected Officials are Filling Their Pockets at The Expense Of Patient Misery

Heather S. Wargo
11 min readFeb 18, 2019

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Part II in Series — “Profiling in America”.

Those Pesky States and their Statutes… That NO ONE Enforces Their Parameters…

If one stops to peruse the state laws on the books regarding PDMPs (prescription drug monitoring programs), there is an abundance of fascinating language buried in our very own state statutes.

For example, many states have what is called “Compacts” with other states.

These are statutes made in state law, usually over roadway or bridge construction, over licensure in nursing or medicine, with other states. They encompass an agreed upon number of states, have rules set governing etc…, have legal language with terms and so forth.

However, in regards to the Opioid Crisis… why would there even need to be a “Compact”?

And furthermore, why would this “Compact” be written like the one in Kentucky legislation has been?

Yes, here we are, back in Kentucky again- the land of Appriss, Inc., and their House of Rep. champion, Hal Rogers, of the “Hal Rogers PDMP programs”.

What a fascinating coincidence.

When I stumbled across this statute it was 2:30 am, and I was in the throes of a horrendous pancreatic flare.

Maybe these people will realize some will stop researching and chasing after their stupid machinations when they are not being harmed directly by them.

If I wasn’t being supposedly punished for idiotic actions of another, I would be able to sleep through a night.

I would have access to the medication appropriate for my condition, at the dose required and not have to worry about this ridiculous, evil, self serving propaganda play.

This crisis is really no more than a cleansing of America, as well as a dressed up profiteering of those in position to do so, at the…

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Heather S. Wargo

Italian American Writer in PA wilds. Gen X survivor attempting to climb shrinking narrow. Despite all my rage, still just a rat in a cage.