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Prescriptions At A Price: America's Opioid Crisis And The Increasing Toll On Drug Record Privacy, Reem Blaik
Prescriptions At A Price: America's Opioid Crisis And The Increasing Toll On Drug Record Privacy, Reem Blaik
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
How should the US Constitution govern patient privacy in the face of a public health emergency? Declaring the United States' opioid crisis as a public health emergency may put the already-compromised integrity of drug record privacy at higher risk by virtue of emerging administrative responses, existing Supreme Court precedent, and acquiescent state laws. The White House convened a summit on opioids where the then-US attorney general discussed law enforcement responses to the crisis. Although the Fourth Amendment protects against unreasonable searches and seizures, the Supreme Court's third-party doctrine generally grants state and federal actors access to records released to third …