www.malibubeachrecoverycenter.com SB 1071 is a bill designed to fund CURES, a real time online data base that will allow doctors and pharmacists in this state to instantly check whether their patients are doctor shopping or pharmacy hopping. On May 5, 2010 with more than 19 months of sobriety, Malibu Beach Recovery Center alumna Krissie Bergo, told her story to a press conference at the State Capitol in Sacramento held in support of SB 1071, a bill designed to fund CURES, a real time online data base that will allow doctors and pharmacists in this state to instantly check whether their patients are doctor shopping or pharmacy hopping. In 2006 Krissie, who never abused alcohol or street drugs, became hopelessly addicted to prescription pain medication. Suffering from carpel tunnel syndrome, RSD, and fibromyalgia, she went to a pain management doctor who put her on a lethal cocktail of pain medications, many reserved for cancer patients. By the time a Workmans Comp judge intervened and sent her to treatment for alcohol and drug addiction in September 2008, her insurance company had spent close to $500000 on her pain medication, mostly Class II narcotics. Krissie was almost comatose when she arrived at Malibu Beach Recovery Center. Her detox took 62 days, ten times more than most heroin addicts or alcoholics. Now Krissie still has pain, but she has found alternative methods of controlling the pain, and regularly attends Pills Anonymous (PA) meetings in addition to AA and NA …
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