Sentences with phrase «prescribing addictive painkillers»
In fact, the FDA recommends doctors send pain patients to acupuncture before prescribing addictive painkillers.
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A number of these highly addictive painkillers get diverted, landing in the hands of patients who misuse them or lack a legitimate medical need; often, they wind up with people to whom they were never prescribed.
FBI agents arrested former Insys Therapeutics (insy) CEO Michael Babich and five other former company executives on Thursday for allegedly bribing doctors to prescribe an extremely addictive opioid painkiller to patients who didn't need it.
Andrew observed a very dangerous trend taking hold: Doctors — who were having new drugs pushed to them by profit - driven pharmaceutical companies — began prescribing extremely powerful and addictive opioid painkillers to patients with almost reckless abandon.
It has largely been attributed to pharmaceutical companies prescribing and profiting from the proliferation of extremely addictive painkillers.
He sees similarities between the push to legalize marijuana and what he called the «right to pain treatment» movement of the 1990s that paved the way for more liberal prescribing of hydrocodone and other highly addictive opioid prescription painkillers.
The Medicaid Inspector General indicates that an addictive opioid that often leads to heroin and fentanyl use is no longer the top painkiller prescribed by doctors in the county.