People were worried that patients could walk into the doctor's office asking for an addictive drug like morphine, and the doctor would just give it to them. In california, paul madden looks at that practice of running sting operations against shady doctors as a crude and inefficient way of dealing with the problem. He decides to create a bureaucratic solution by creating a new regulation for doctors. Each prescription blank shall be printed in triplicate, with one blank attached to the book in such a manner that it will be readily removed,. Two of the blanks shall be perforated for removal.