Pushing Drugs or Pushing the Envelope: The Prosecution of Doctors in Connection with Over-Prescribing of Opium-Based Drugs

Philosophy and Public Policy Quarterly 28 (1/2):7-12 (2008)
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When a doctor writes prescriptions in his office, following consultation with a patient, and receives no compensation other than the normal fee for service, can this still be drug trafficking? Recent courtjudgments have emphatically held that it can, but in so doing courts wrongly impose criminal liability on doctors for trusting patients

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