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After first year, drug-monitoring program needs new funds to stay alive
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As the Georgia painkiller-monitoring system became a year old, there is uncertainty as to whether it will be around to see its second birthday. The Georgia Prescription Drug Monitoring Program went live in May 2013, an attempt to curb the overprescribing of pain medication throughout the state. Now that the system is up and running, Rick Allen of the Georgia Drugs and Narcotics Agency said new funding needs to be secured to keep it going.