Prince death highlights lax discipline of Minnesota overprescribing
The home state of late pop music icon Prince has had serious issues with properly disciplining physicians who overprescribe [...]
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Doctor properly disciplined for prescribing with unrenewed Rx registration
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Vitamin & enzyme injections test restrictions on prescribing
Are vitamin injections prescribed drugs? That’s one question Idaho wants to answer in new regulations of how [...]
This licensing database was misused to monitor the public, not just licensees
A new law passed in the state of Utah has significantly decreased the usage of the state’s prescription drug database [...]
Florida: Strict curbs on physicians bring “pill mill” operations under control
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WV pharmacies not waiting around for board’s discipline of doctor
Citing “a preponderance of evidence,” a West Virginia pharmacy is refusing to fill prescriptions for a doctor [...]
‘Pill mills’ getting attention of DEA
The term is often synonymous with dirty connotations—drug dealing, narcotics factory, over-prescribing, criminal [...]
Discipline authorities try to keep up with over-prescribing docs
State medical boards are looking closely at doctors who have prescribed alarming amounts of Schedule 2 drugs. According to [...]
“Drug dealer” doc’s license revoked at last
After years of criminal and disciplinary proceedings, a New Jersey neurologist called “a drug dealer” by the [...]
“Turning in” license to avoid discipline not an option
An Oklahoma doctor charged with overprescribing painkillers argues the state medical board didn’t have authority to [...]