What in the hell can we do to stop this?
I never consented to have my private health data given to the DEA.
Can we mount legal challenges?
DEA Pursues Vast Expansion of Patient Surveillance
Now DEA is proposing a new system that makes PDMPs look like child’s play. “the DEA is interested in its agents having ‘unlimited access to patient de-identified data’ on re/filled prescriptions, daily supply, payment type, dosing information and gender.”
Those are direct quotes from the DEA’s request for proposals. Like, this isn’t some hidden deep-state conspiracy. They’re actively seeking bidders to do this,
https://twitter.com/Filtermag_org @Filtermag_orgreports. And “patient de-identified data,” btw, means your name, DOB, and other personal info.
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is looking to expand its anti-diversion surveillance infrastructure by being able to search and analyze myriad patient behaviors for the vast majority of controlled and scheduled drug prescriptions—all accompanied by a rapid process for legally unveiling personally identifying information.
In early September, the agency requested proposals for the creation of software capable of searching at least 85 percent of all US residents’ controlled-substance prescriptions for certain patient behaviors, as well as prescriber and pharmacist practices.
The Pharmacy Prescription Data system would cede patient-level data to the federal drug-war agency to a far greater extent than comparable existing databases.
According to the agency’s request for proposal (RFP), the DEA is interested in its agents having “unlimited access to patient de-identified data” on re/filled prescriptions, daily supply, payment type, dosing information and gender, among other characteristics, until at least 2025.
The current Automated Reports and Consolidated Orders System (ARCOS), created by the Controlled Substances Act alongside the DEA itself, only monitors controlled substances’ manufacture, supply chains and distribution.