The use of anecdotes to describe how patients misuse opiates is driving the State's demand to control more of sick or injured people's lives.   Doctors make medical decisions concerning individual patient's care.  Another layer of bureaucracy with arbitrary limits and gatekeepers like pharmacists is not only not needed, but interferes with the Doctor/Patient relationship that we are all entitled to maintain.  The chair of the Interim Study Committee says that she is pushing this legislation because her mother was an addict.  I'm sorry to hear that, but it has nothing to do with the needs of thousands of Coloradan's who suffer from chronic pain.  Dr's go to school for nearly a decade to understand medical science. Not pharmacists, or law enforcement officers and certainly not legislators.