Making the "Pharmacy Crawl" by Timothy W. Martin. The Wall Street Journal. September 27, 2012.
Key Ideas/Summary. Several states now make doctors criminally liable and revoke their licenses for writing prescriptions for painkillers that lead to overdoses. As a result some physicians do not write such prescriptions at all. These laws arose as a result of the skyrocketing number of deaths by prescription drugs which in 2011 exceeded death from heroin and cocaine combined (Centers for Disease Control). As a results of restrictive laws some pharmacies have stopped carrying pain-killers or limited their supply, sometimes forcing patients to "crawl" from pharmacy to pharmacy to fill their prescription.
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