- procedure.
While opioids aid in short- and long-term pain management,
overprescription or
constant opioid-exposure
increases the risk for addiction. There...
- Antipsychotics,
previously known as
neuroleptics and
major tranquilizers, are a
class of
psychotropic medication primarily used to
manage psychosis (including...
- Pharma, and some
members of the family, have
faced lawsuits regarding overprescription of
addictive pharmaceutical drugs,
including OxyContin.
Purdue Pharma...
- saw the
emergence of the
opioid epidemic,
driven initially by the
overprescription of
opioid painkillers,
creating a
lucrative market that
Mexican cartels...
-
causes and
severity of
these long term side-effects[citation needed]
Overprescription of
antipsychotics among seniors with
dementia is evident[self-published...
-
through doctor shopping,
prescription forgery,
pharmacy theft, and
overprescription. The
recent formulations of oxycodone,
particularly Purdue Pharma's...
-
infection complications.
Antibiotics are
often overused due to physicians’
overprescription or
unreasonable medical requests made by patients.
Unlike other prescription...
-
Medical journals of the
later 1800s were
replete with
warnings against overprescription. As
medical advances like the x-ray, vaccines, and germ
theory presented...
-
expansion of a
system called "tele-primary care".
Another issue is the
overprescription of drugs,
though this has
decreased in
recent years.
Since 2009 the...
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profit motive could result in harm to patients. She has also
criticized overprescription of antidepressants,
questioning whether antidepressants play a role...
