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Prescription protection: a Tampa company teams up with Florida Medicaid to protect patients and...

By Miracle, Barbara
Publication: Florida Trend
Date: Sunday, February 1 2004

Patients aren't always forthright when talking to their doctors--a fact that often can lead to serious problems. If patients, for example, don't disclose the number of prescription drugs they are taking, they risk serious side-effects, addiction or even death. Sometimes, patients sell drug stockpiles of their prescription drugs illegally.

Florida Medicaid, the program that provides prescriptions and other healthcare services to the state's low-income children and seniors, is trying to stop both the unintentional and deliberate abuse of prescription drugs by investing $

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