We don’t need no stinkin’ warrants!

Obviously believing that the 4th Amendment does not apply to them, the DEA is demanding access to patients’ supposedly “private” medical records:

The Drug Enforcement Administration is trying to access private prescription records of patients in Oregon without a warrant, despite a state law forbidding it from doing so. The ACLU and its Oregon affiliate are challenging this practice in a new case that raises the question of whether the Fourth Amendment allows federal law enforcement agents to obtain confidential prescription records without a judge’s prior approval. It should not.

In 2009, the Oregon legislature created the Oregon Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP), which tracks prescriptions for certain drugs dispensed by Oregon pharmacies, including all of the medications listed above. The program was intended to help physicians prevent drug overdoses by their patients and more easily recognize signs of drug abuse. Because the medical information revealed by these prescription records is highly sensitive, the legislature created robust privacy and security protections for the PDMP, including a requirement that law enforcement must obtain a warrant before requesting records for use in an investigation. But despite those protections, the DEA has been requesting prescription records from the PDMP using administrative subpoenas which, unlike warrants, do not involve demonstrating probable cause to a neutral judge.

Administrative subpoenas? What’s up with that? Does the DEA think that the 4th Amendment does not apply because they’re not calling them search warrants? From what part of the Constitution did they obtain this unprecedented power?

Well, I can’s say I’t surprised. I have been warning about these unconstitutional prescription drug databases for years now.

And if the DEA can look at your prescription records, then so can the gun grabbers.

Doesn’t anyone realize that this will only cause people to buy drugs illegally?

Oh, I guess I predicted that too.