The New York Times reports that few physicians are criminally prosecuted or sanctioned by medical boards for illegally or improperly prescribing narcotics, a study published this month has found. According to the study, published in the Journal Pain Medicine, the results largely dispel the notion that doctors are hesitant to prescribe narcotics because of fear of legal scrutiny. Critics of the findings said they believed the study to be seriously flawed.
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