patient centered care - Hope 411 https://hope411.org Pursuing Health Equity Wed, 02 Aug 2023 06:16:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://hope411.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Hope-411-pheonix-logo-512-x-512-px-75x75.png patient centered care - Hope 411 https://hope411.org 32 32 NEPO Task Force Poised to Increase Overdose Crisis https://hope411.org/news-briefs/nepo-task-force-poised-to-increase-overdose-crisis/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nepo-task-force-poised-to-increase-overdose-crisis https://hope411.org/news-briefs/nepo-task-force-poised-to-increase-overdose-crisis/#comments Sun, 03 Jul 2022 22:13:13 +0000 https://hope411.org/?p=1345 Just two days after the US Supreme Court released a 9-0 opinion favoring physicians exercising their clinical judgement when prescribing medication to patients under the Controlled Substance Act, the Justice Department announced the formation of a new strike force targeting medical professionals prescribing and dispensing controlled substances.

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Due to interference with the practice of medicine patients are being forced to play a game of medical roulette.

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