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| Subject: Idiotic OZschwitz doctor Matthew Frei calls for drug tests to trap patient dealers Sat Nov 17, 2012 5:10 pm | |
| PATIENTS being given powerful painkillers should be routinely drug tested to make sure they are not selling their drugs on the booming black market, doctors say.
Leading pain and addiction medicine experts say there is increasing evidence of doctors being scammed for large doses of prescription drugs, particularly addictive opioids such as OxyContin.
While addicts ''doctor shopping'' for prescriptions is well known, the head of pain management at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, Penny Briscoe, said there was now evidence of ''fossil pharming'' in Australia where elderly people sell their medication to supplement their pensions.
Dr Briscoe said an elderly palliative care patient recently admitted to selling his drugs to boost his income, raising the prospect that more patients were doing the same without their doctors knowing.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/call-for-drug-tests-to-trap-patient-dealers-20121117-29iyc.html#ixzz2CWKepZAt
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