Cenk Uygur
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Doctors Resist Painkiller Regulations
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April 3, 2016
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April 3, 2016
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7:11Now PlayingThe FDA wants doctors to be more careful when they prescribe painkiller drugs. Doctors are resisting the new regulations. Ana Kasparian and John Iadarola, hosts of The Young Turks discuss.
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“The nation's top health officials are stepping up calls to require doctors to log in to pill-tracking databases before prescribing painkillers and other high-risk drugs.
The move is part of a multi-pronged strategy by the Obama administration to tame an epidemic of abuse and death tied to opioid painkillers like Vicodin and OxyContin.
But physician groups see a requirement to check databases before prescribing popular drugs for pain, anxiety and other ailments as being overly burdensome.
Helping push the administration's effort forward is an unusual, multi-million lobbying campaign funded by a former corporate executive who has turned his attention to fighting addiction.”
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