Posted by: newhavendc | November 5, 2009

DEA efforts affect those in hospice, nursing care

Heightened efforts by the Drug Enforcement Administration to crack down on narcotics abuse are producing a troubling side effect by denying some hospice and elderly patients needed pain medication, according to two Senate Democrats and a coalition of pharmacists and geriatric experts.

Read more: http://www.kansas.com/news/nation-world/story/1031994.html#ixzz0VWzfcHW0


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