White Paper

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Telemedicine Prescribing of Controlled Substances

 

The dark side of the new congressional bill.

Congress has made another effort to call upon the federal Drug Enforcement Agency to activate a special registration that would grant physicians and nurse practitioners to write prescriptions for controlled substances by means of telemedicine without having an in person physical examination. This white paper reviews the reason behind the Special Registration for Telemedicine Clarification Act of 2018 and what it accomplishes; as well as the problems with the proposed bill.