Doctors are now required to check a new mandatory database for narcotics and controlled substances before prescribing opioids to patients. Starting Tuesday, doctors in California are required to check a new mandatory database for narcotics and controlled substances before prescribing opioids to patients.The idea for the new system started 15 years ago, when two children were killed by an impaired driver on a sidewalk in Danville. That driver killed 7-year-old Alana and 10-year-old Troy back in October 2003. Since then, opioid use has skyrocketed as the children’s father, Bob Pack, has fought for the database through a ballot measure and eventually the legislature.RELATED: Marin County joins lawsuit against 12 pharmaceutical companies over opioidsPack said, “When I learned the driver was getting multiple prescriptions, I really thought there needs to be a technology solution. It hit me right away.”He says the woman who killed them was a doctor-shopping drug addict, simultaneously getting narcotics from six different doctors at the same Walnut Creek hospital.

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