The Council approved the ban partly because City Attorney Ken Jarrard said there is a link between pain management clinics and increased violence. The moratorium is designed to give the city an opportunity to develop regulations for pain clinics.
The ban will apply to privately-owned pain management clinics that dispense any type of pain management services or controlled substances, not licensed pharmacies. According to the report, the moratorium will not affect any existing clinics.
The Georgia Drug and Narcotics Agency has reported that deaths from prescription drug overdoses outweigh those from all other illicit drugs, according to the report.
Read the Alpharetta-Milton Patch report on Milton’s moratorium on new pain management clinics.
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