Doctors prescribing powerful pain pills, such as hydrocodone and oxycodone, in South Carolina will now have to check a state database before prescribing the highly-addictive medication.
Gov. Henry McMaster held a ceremony Tuesday signing a sought-after prescription-monitoring bill into law as state legislators moved to pass next year's budget and finish the 2017 session.
The law mandates that both the names of the prescribing doctor and the receiving patient be identified.
