March 11, 2011 | Florida's prescription drug monitoring database is headed for a showdown, with a State House committee voting Thursday to kill the planned program that has vigorous support from state senators. The database is meant to help curb the state's prescription drug abuse epidemic. Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, offered to donate $1 million over the next two years to pay for the program, which has no state funding, but Robert Schenck, a Republican from Spring Hill who chairs the House Health and Human Services Committee, dismissed the offer, saying it's like the "fox guarding the henhouse." St. Petersburg Times