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- Title
Regulating pain.
- Authors
Simmons, Gerald
- Abstract
The article discusses the addiction of Americans to prescription pain killers and the regulations that are being put into place to prevent that. Topics include the new Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulation where doctors and dentists won't be allowed to to phone in prescriptions for hydrocodone products like Vicodin, the availability of mild drugs only like ibuprofen over the counter and the various ways in which the addicted try to get medications.
- Subjects
UNITED States; DRUG addiction -- Social aspects; PEOPLE with drug addiction; UNITED States. Food &; Drug Administration; HYDROCODONE; ACETAMINOPHEN-hydrocodone (Drug); IBUPROFEN; GOVERNMENT policy
- Publication
Faculty Dental Journal, 2014, Vol 5, Issue 2, p94
- ISSN
2042-6852
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1308/204268514X13939420839223