Program set up to monitor online sale of prescription drugs
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Amarillo, TX - A secure online prescription monitoring program has been developed by the Texas Department of Public Safety. It is being called Prescription Access in Texas, or "PAT."
The program provides controlled substance prescription dispensing history to authorized health care and law enforcement professionals.
Texas law restricts access to prescription data to practitioners and pharmacists who are inquiring about their patients, and to various law enforcement agencies for conducting investigations.
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OKLAHOMA CITY - A mile-wide tornado churned through the Oklahoma City suburbs, destroying homes for the second day in a row.
OKLAHOMA CITY - A mile-wide tornado churned through the Oklahoma City suburbs, destroying homes for the second day in a row Monday, as part of a severe weather outbreak that was expected to spread in other parts of the Plains and Midwest.
In Amarillo, TxDOT construction crews will be out again starting Monday, fixing up a few roadways around town, which means there are a few lane closures drivers will want to know about.
In Amarillo, TxDOT construction crews will be out again starting Monday, fixing up a few roadways around town, which means there are a few lane closures drivers will want to know about.
Authorities say tornadoes have touched down in Wichita, Kan., and a suburb of Oklahoma City but there are no immediate reports of injuries or significant damage.
Tornadoes ravaged portions of central Oklahoma on Sunday, reducing portions of a mobile home park to rubble and killing a 79-year-old man whose body was found out in the open.
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