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2. Overmedication - Wikipedia

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   Overmedication is an overutilization of medication wherein a patient takes voluntarily, or is prescribed, unnecessary or excessive medications. While not strictly a medical condition, common symptoms may include: slurred speech, drowsiness, confusion, and poor motor skills. Hence it is a risk factor for falls, especially among the elderly. [1]

3. Being a patient is getting harder in a strained and complex ...

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   Patients are not getting enough help dealing with a healthcare system that is growing increasingly complex, according to researchers and other experts in care delivery. Tamika Davis couldn’t nap ...

4. Electronic Prescriptions for Controlled Substances - Wikipedia

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   The rule “Electronic Prescriptions for Controlled Substances” (75 FR 16236, March 31, 2010) [Docket No. DEA-218, RIN 1117-AA61] provides practitioners with the option of writing and transmitting prescriptions for controlled substances electronically. The regulations also permit pharmacies to receive, dispense, and archive these electronic ...

5. History of United States drug prohibition - Wikipedia

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   1913: The American Medical Association created a propaganda department to outlaw health fraud and quackery. [6] In the same year, California outlawed cannabis. 1914: The first recorded instance of the United States enacting a ban on the domestic distribution of drugs is the Harrison Narcotic Act [7] of 1914.

6. Overprescribing painkillers, breaching patient info: 14 ... - AOL

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   Paul George Hoffman of Ashland retired his medical license in general surgery on Nov. 2, 2023 after allegations that he inappropriately looked up patient information contained in more than 8,000 ...

7. NHS takes action to tackle overprescribing - AOL

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8. Prescription monitoring program - Wikipedia

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   History. Prescription drug monitoring programs, or PDMPs, are an example of one initiative proposed to alleviate effects of the opioid crisis. The programs are designed to restrict prescription drug abuse by limiting a patient's ability to obtain similar prescriptions from multiple providers (i.e. “doctor shopping”) and reducing diversion of controlled substances.

9. Kentucky doctor sentenced to 20 years over prescribing that ...

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   May 13, 2024 at 10:25 AM. Getty Images. A Kentucky dentist convicted of illegally prescribing morphine to a patient who died of a drug overdose has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison ...