Pain management. Doctors, patients, and the DEA
Description
High-dose pain management therapy involving narcotics has placed doctors and patients under scrutiny by federal regulators. Is the Drug Enforcement Administration simply cracking down on criminal overprescription and prescription forgery, or is it unfairly targeting doctors for merely doing their jobs, and punishing people with chronic pain? This ABC News program weighs in on the question through interviews with DEA Administrator Karen Tandy, a doctor convicted of overprescribing, and a patient serving a 25-year prison sentence for possessing too much pain medication.
Runtime
22 min
Subjects
- Drug utilization (197)
- Substance abuse (361)
- Drugs (239)
- Drug abuse and crime (31)
- Pain (164)
- Narcotics (10)
Genre
Date of Publication
[2006], c2005
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