Policy and Medical-Legal Issues in the Prescribing of Controlled Substances
作者:
ClarkH.Westley,
期刊:
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs
(Taylor Available online 1991)
卷期:
Volume 23,
issue 4
页码: 321-328
ISSN:0279-1072
年代: 1991
DOI:10.1080/02791072.1991.10471602
出版商: Taylor&Francis Group
关键词: prescribing;chronic pain;medical-legal;national practitioner data bank;electronic data transfer;state laws;federal laws;opioids;benzodiazepines
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
AbstractThe physician who prescribes controlled substances is faced with an array of laws, regulatory policies, and professional attitudes about their use. Prescriptions for these scheduled drugs are furthermore monitored by the pharmacists who dispense them. Certain drugs, such as the opioids and the benzodiazepines, are considered so potentially abusive that special programs have been recommended to track the behavior of physician prescribers. Multiple copy programs have been implemented in some states. More recent proposals recommend electronic data transfer (EDT) of pharmacy information to centralized processing points so that misprescribing physicians and doctor-shopping patients can be identified. Regulators concerned about physician behavior and confronted by demands of nonphysicians to prescribe controlled substances may find EDT a good solution. Physicians should be concerned about being censured for misprescribing, because such actions may lead to inclusion in the National Practitioner Data Bank. With all of the regulatory concerns about controlled substances, those physicians who would employ long-term opioid therapy for their chronic pain patients must follow certain basic guidelines to be able to defend themselves against allegations of deviant professional behavior. Such procedures as conducting a history and physical examination, maintaining a written treatment plan, consulting with knowledgeable colleagues, and assessing for addictive behavior can provide the practitioner with safeguards.
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