Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Caplan on Prescription Drug Abuse

Today Art Caplan, in his MSNBC column, discusses the epidemic of prescription drug abuse in this country. But his conclusions would have a chilling effect upon physicians. �He concludes, “Shouldn?t we create a public policy and legal doctrine that hold accountable those doctors who prescribe these potent painkillers indiscriminately? �Of course we should. The problem, of course, is that creating policy that is designed to catch the “bad apples” in medicine so far in the US has had the effect of treating every physician who prescribes opioids and other pain medication in the US like they are a criminal.…

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