AG Jim Hood Wants Opioid Regulations

Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood announces things he wants to see legislators accomplish in this 2017 session and topping the list is laws regarding opioid abuse.
Hood says doctors should have to check an electronic registry before prescribing potentially addictive painkillers.
He wants a law or regulations requiring physicians and others to check the prescription monitoring program run by the Mississippi Pharmacy Board to prevent patients from acquiring multiple prescriptions.
Hood says he fears illegal sales or overdoses, part of a nationwide problem.
Mississippians filled more than 1.5 million prescriptions for hydrocodone, just one type of pain killer with opioids, in the first nine months of 2015.