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Updated: Saturday, 23 Feb 2013, 7:00 PM EST
Published : Saturday, 23 Feb 2013, 7:00 PM EST

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) - The I-Stop Law intended to prevent patients from getting medicine(s) from multiple doctors goes into effect Saturday.

The new law was started to stop patients from overdosing, sharing, or selling medicine to others.

One part of the law still being implemented will provide an online database that pharmacists will have to check before filling a drug order.

Executive Director of the Pharmacists Association of WNY Dennis Galluzzo said, "So if a patient goes from here to drug store X or drug store Y or goes to another doctor and gets more prescriptions we will be able to track that."

Western New Yorker Avi Isreal played a major role in getting the law implemented after his son Micheal who was addicted to pain pills took his own life.

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