N.H. Veterinarians Object to Prescription Drug Monitoring Program Mandate

To prevent humans from abusing opioids, under the new mandate veterinarians in New Hampshire will have to check the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program database before prescribing medications to their pet patients. And therein lies the problem. "It's inappropriate and illegal for someone who's not a human medical professional to make a medical determination about human beings," Stephen Crawford, DVM, the state veterinarian who serves on the New Hampshire Board of Veterinary Medicine, told the Union Leader. "If a veterinarian accessed the database and found out that a client of theirs had been prescribed some opioid, what do they do with that information?"