If you've been following the prosecutions of pain doctors for "overprescribing" opioid medication and the recent firings by the Bush administration of eight U.S. attorneys, an unsettling pattern emerges. ❋ Unknown (2008)
In a second study in the same journal, Belgian investigators led by Dr. Kris De Boeck, from the department of pediatric pulmonology and infectious diseases at the University Hospital of Leuven, found similar overprescribing of antibiotics to asthmatic children. ❋ Unknown (2011)
"The focus of the guidelines is around alerting physicians that they may inadvertently be part of this national trend in overprescribing this in droves, and the excess pills are getting into the hands of individuals for whom they were not intended," Ms. Gibbs said. ❋ Michael Howard Saul (2011)
Dioynsios Filiotis, who runs Eli Lilly 's Greek arm and is head of the country's drug-company trade group, acknowledged that "there is overprescribing in the system." ❋ Charles Forelle (2011)
The study by the Government Accountability Office is raising concern among lawmakers and medical experts that doctors are overprescribing psychiatric drugs to treat children in the foster-care system. ❋ Thomas M. Burton (2011)
The dangers of overprescribing antibiotics are that it promotes the development of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and there are side effects for the drugs themselves, Paul pointed out. ❋ Unknown (2011)
In addition, overprescribing antibiotics entails personal and societal risks, Krogstad said. ❋ Unknown (2011)
The tracking system would include a centralized database to help identify buyers who are accumulating large numbers of pills and the doctors who are overprescribing them. ❋ Arian Campo-Flores (2011)
The overprescribing guardians of our health have elevated profit making over quality of care. ❋ Unknown (2010)
"The case is about were they overprescribing and was she addicted." ❋ Unknown (2010)
It also helps more states set up electronic databases to identify doctors who are overprescribing addictive pain killers. ❋ Unknown (2010)
It also helps more states set up electronic databases to identify doctors who are overprescribing addictive painkillers. ❋ Unknown (2010)
"If controls like this had been in place from the beginning on drugs like Vioxx and Redux, instead of allowing mass marketing and overprescribing, we would probably not have had severe problems later, the controversies for the companies and the agency, and the drugs 'withdrawal," he said. ❋ Unknown (2010)
SSRIs came on the heels of the public scandal about the overprescribing of benzodiazepines. ❋ Ethan Watters (2010)
The assumption that docs legitimate docs are either flippantly overprescribing drugs like Oxycodone or recommending OTC tylenol is grossly over-simplified. ❋ Unknown (2010)
This concern has much more to do with patient lack of education and misuse than with doctors overprescribing the stuff. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Well, let ` s hear from Dr. Arnie Klein, Jackson ` s dermatologist, who says he was not one of the doctors involved in overprescribing Jackson. ❋ Unknown (2009)
He's one of two doctors who is also accused of overprescribing the medication. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I have noticed that my patients that were accessing some of these doctors that were overprescribing have suddenly moved out of town. ❋ Unknown (2009)
There's a lot of talk in this town, much more buzz about overprescribing, problems with doctors and pharmacies not following up or not having unified sources of information on patients. ❋ Unknown (2009)
