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Can State Medical Boards Adequately Respond to Reports that Physicians Are Inappropriately Prescribing Opioids?
Author(s) -
Hoffmann D E
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
clinical pharmacology and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.941
H-Index - 188
eISSN - 1532-6535
pISSN - 0009-9236
DOI - 10.1038/sj.clpt.6100209
Subject(s) - indictment , clinical pharmacology , referral , medicine , family medicine , pharmacology , law , political science
In this issue, Reidenberg and Willis share results of a 2‐year study of cases in which physicians were criminally prosecuted for their prescribing of opioids “outside the bounds of proper medical practice.” 1 They found that in only two of 32 such cases had a state medical board reviewed the case before indictment. In many of the cases, the authors argue that the prosecutors overreached and that these kinds of cases could be better handled by referral to state medical boards. Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics (2007) 81 , 799–801. doi: 10.1038/sj.clpt.6100209