I hope CURES goes down. It's nothing but a hiccup and a way for LEO / DEA and other agencies to interfere in patient treatment and cause doctors to be afraid of the feds to the point where the DEA dictates patient treatment instead of the medical practitioner.

I've seen this a thousand times. You have dentists who are so terrified they won't write a script for 18 Vicodin after oral surgery. You have doctors who can't treat chronic pain due to stigma, and you have companies like Jazz Pharmaceuticals with a monopoly charging patients $2500 / month for their Xyrem when it costs them $10 to manufacture it.

Leave the government out of our private information and health care between the patient and the doctor.

I also find it disturbing that ANYONE with an account on CURES can look up ANY patient and ALL of their drug history. Their are two people that maintain and run the CURES database for the entire state of California. Who is watching the people watching my information?

It is a crying shame it is so difficult for our legislators see the cost savings by keeping CURES rather than previous cost waste to investigate and prosecute illicit participants in the drug trade that adds to the addiction eluded to by Dr. Snook.