Controlled substance tracking system and method

A method for tracking prescriptive medications, to address and control prescription drug abuse, said method comprising;

• providing respective computer connections to a plurality of entities, said plurality of entities comprising at least one of a group comprising a plurality of hospitals, a plurality of doctors, at least one government agency, and a plurality of doctors;
• storing pharmaceutical computer data relating to prescriptive medication purchases obtained by a plurality of prescriptive medication purchasers from a plurality of pharmacies;
• selectively transferring said pharmaceutical computer data through said computer connections to at least one of said plurality of entities for obtaining a prescriptive history of a selected prescriptive medication purchaser for all prescriptive medications purchased in the aggregate by said selected prescriptive medication purchaser from all of said plurality of pharmacies based on said transferred pharmaceutical computer data;
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• generating from said prescription history of said selected purchaser one or more patterns which can be used by one or more viewers of said prescriptive history to flag the possibility of prescriptive drug abuse.