Grand Jury Calls on Lawmakers to Adopt 'I-Stop'

A county grand jury in Long Island, N.Y., is calling on state lawmakers to adopt a real-time, online prescription drug database proposed by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.Schneiderman last week released a report from the Suffolk County, N.Y., grand jury calling on the New York Legislature to mandate use of a statewide prescription drug-monitoring program (PDMP) similar to the attorney general's proposal through the Internet System for Tracking Over-Prescribing (I-STOP) Act.New York Sen. Andrew Lanza, R-Staten Island, filed Senate 5720, which would create the online database, o...