The Drug Enforcement Administration yesterday overturned a two-year-old policy that many pain specialists said was limiting their ability to properly treat chronically ill patients in need of powerful, morphine-based painkillers. While defending its efforts to aggressively investigate doctors who officials conclude are writing painkiller prescriptions for no 'legitimate medical purpose,' the agency agreed with the protesting experts that it had gone too far in limiting how doctors prescribe the widely used medications. (Washington Post, Thursday)
Do those drug agents have a license to practice medicine?
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The Myth of Available Pain Care (pdf) by Frank Fisher