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Article: Following the strip. (Medical Privacy in Florida).(Brief Article)
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- August 1, 2002
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THE FLORIDA legislature has declined to go along with Gov. Jeb Bush's attempt to turn a family problem into a problem for the whole state.
In January, Bush's daughter Noelle was nabbed while using a forged prescription to procure the tranquilizer Xanax at a Tallahassee drug store. In the aftermath, the governor pushed for a new law to ensure that future Noelle Bushes would have government watchers, not merely supportive families, to help control their "substance abuse."
The bill would have created a state database of controlled drug prescriptions, complete with the name and address of the buyer, to make it easier for police to detect patterns of ...