Study Group: Sports Medicine Family Practitioners (US)(?)

This article serves as a reminder that it is institutional, not individual diversion of controlled substances that is the principal basis of this important public health concern.

Vicodin is used mostly widely used pain medication because it can be prescribed over the phone without a written prescription. That said, familiarity with this compound will make it an easy sell to physicians. Cost will prove the main barrier to widespread adoption- will compete against generic morphine...

Why should we as physicians, care who the pharmaceutial companies are marketing to?  Why should the FDA/ government care who companies market to?

If the staff of the retail clinic has close supervision by a licenced physician, these clinics could be benifician.  Unfortunately, from what I have seen, supervision of these clinics has been lacking.  Similar to pharmacies now doing cholesterol checks and immunizations, the full evaluation...

This article hits at the base of a major problem in the United States.  On all sides of the issue, there is no transparency.  In fact, lack of transparency is encouraged.  In the pharmacuetical field it is with AWP, in the providers field it is the "usual and customary".  In the...