Years ago, the military required that I use both my DEA and social security numbers on prescriptions.  An enlisted man was able to find my numbers without me writing a prescription for him, and he used those numbers to acquire a surprising amount of narcotics in military and civilian pharmacies before he was caught.  He also used the information to steal my identity, producing over a year of legal hassles and severe inconvenience.  If anything, we should use a secure network to pharmacies, eliminating paper prescriptions, and keeping the public from having access to this information.  At least we now have the prescription registry, so that we can track abusers before they use us to get more narcotics.