By Michael Whiteley, Eastern Bureau ChiefThe Connecticut General Assembly is scheduled to vote this week on three bills that would expand use of the state's six-year-old prescription drug-monitoring program and is expected to adopt a call by the state's Department of Consumer Protection to require reporting by dispensing physicians.The Connecticut Senate has scheduled a final vote on House Bill 6406, which the department requested as a way to boost physician use of the Connecticut Prescription Monitoring and Reporting System. Authorized in 2006 and launched a year later, the database i...
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