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Here Telemedicine.4mg presents some media coverage over the last two years or so on Telemedicine. We reserve judgment on any of the material below (except the first block). You do the reading, you make up your own mind. Some of these articles are factual, some had a bone to pick. Some of the below links are purely informational sources for your assistance. Note how opinions tend to vary geographically. |
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For the most part, these articles are the printable versions. We tried to spare you some of inevitable media popups that most on-line news sources throw up at you. Each will open in its own window. |
Same Author, two divergent viewpoints from same J. Scott Orr. We can't resist a comment here: an example of a true hack reporter. Told to investigate the same subject by two employers, one says get a positive spin, the other a negative one. Whatever happened to just the facts? Amazing!
At Drugbuyers.com, pain sufferers not sorry - Twin Cities
Pioneer Press
Thanks
to Online Pharmacies, Addiction Can Be Just a Click Away - Newhouse News
SURVEY RESULTS:
Online
Drug Buying Easier to Swallow - BizReport on Harris Poll
FLORIDA:
Proposal to track pills may pass at last - Miami Herald
Powerful pain pills sold through Web - Miami Herald
DEA raids Davie Web-Rx outfit - Miami Herald
Pines online pharmacy closes - Miami Herald
DEA
suspends Haines City doctor - PolkOnline.com
Exhibit
A in Rush Limbaugh Probe - The Smoking Gun
Limbaugh's addiction
tough to kick - MSNBC
Cyber Medicine - The New
Trend in Health Care - Pensacola.com
TEXAS:
Cracking down Pharmacies that fill orders for unregulated
sites feel the heat of government enforcement - Fort Worth Star Telegram
Ex-doctor sentenced in cyber prescribing - MySanAntonio.com
- See footnote #1
Feel My Pain - The Houston Press
By Craig Malisow
Published: June 8, 2006
This reporter took the unusual step of doing some actual research first before writing the article. Unfortunately, he had the misfortune to pick an Online Consultation Service with a dubious reputation, but didn't let that experience unduly color his reporting. That is the mark of a true professional reporter. Read the article for a truer picture of Internet Medicine. Below are a few excerpts from the beginning of his series of articles:
First things first: While the DEA is concerned about so-called rogue
pharmacies that ship drugs directly to the customer, these businesses are in the
minority.
.....
But rogue pharmacies are anomalies.
The industry is dominated by third-party referral services, which are split into
records online pharmacies (ROPs) and no-records online pharmacies (NROP). As
their labels indicate, the NROPs do not require customers to fax medical
histories, but they still require a telephone consultation.
The ROPs outweigh their counterparts, and their standards, as questionable as
they are, indicate that it's probably easier for a teenager to buy Vicodin at
school than online. And OxyContin, Painkiller Public Enemy No. 1, is even harder
to get. Few online services offer Oxy, and when they do, it isn't cheap.
Since ROPs require faxed medical records and copies of a driver's license and
credit card, followed by a telephone consult, it is highly unlikely that the
average teenager can buy Oxy online.
WEST COAST:
Internet
medicine trips up doctor - Sacramento Bee
Scoring some Vike just a quick stroll away - San Francisco
Chronicle
Online doctors retained licenses despite troubles -
SignOnSanDiego
Purchasing pills via Web may not be good for your health -
Alemeda Times Star
State's plea to doctors: Limit opiate prescriptions -
Seattle Times
NEW YORK:
Go
E-Mail the Doctor - Village Voice
The
DEA's War on Pain Doctors - Village Voice
N.J. Doctor's Rx on the Web Draws Scrutiny -
New Jersey Bergen Record
Two Agencies to Fight Online Narcotics Sales - New York Times
WASHINGTON DC:
Rush
Limbaugh and the Sick Federal War on Pain Relief - by Rep. Ron Paul, MD
Dingell Letter, Customs Service, Pharmaceuticals Purchased over
Internet - Commerce Committee Democrats
WASHINGTON POST:
Drugs and the Internet - Washington Post
Google to Limit Some Drug Ads - Washington Post
U.S. Prescription Drug System Under Attack - Washington Post
Anti-Counterfeit Steps By Drugmakers Sought - Washington
Post
U.S. Is Working to Make Painkillers Harder to Obtain -
Washington Post
CANADA:
Online pharmacies, or canada? Your opinion? - WebMD
FDA clamps down on drug imports - Drugstorenews.com
ELSEWHERE:
Drugs online - Fort Wayne News Sentinel
Pain Matrix: Disability, cancer -- and Humboldt's drug-tolerant
culture -- mean more prescribed narcotics here than elsewhere in the state -
Eureka Times-Standard
FDA:
Buying Medicines
and Medical Products Online - FDA
FDA
CONCERNS ABOUT ONLINE SALES - FDA
Buying
Drugs Online: It's Convenient and Private, but Beware of 'Rogue Sites' - FDA
COVERAGE OF PERSONAL IMPORTATIONS - FDA
DEA:
Dispensing and Purchasing Controlled Substances over the
Internet - DEA
RxNetwork:
LANDMARK
DECISION: VICTORY FOR INTERNET MEDICINE - RxNetwork.com
ONLINE PRESCRIPTION PHARMACY WINS STATE COURT BATTLE -
RxNetwork.com
Steel
Hector & Davis obtains court victory for RxNetwork - RxNetwork.com
Florida
Board of Pharmacy - General Business Meeting Minutes for March 31, 2003 (pdf)
HELPFUL INFORMATION:
Eckerd Drug Advisor
RxList - The Internet Drug
Index
Toxicity After Repeated Acetaminophen Doses in Adults - American College of Medical Toxicology
Once seen as a wonder drug, aspirin now raises fears of side
effects - Boston Globe
10 Drugs You Should Never Buy on the Web - Prevention
Hospital Care: How Does Your State Rate? - WebMD
Florida
Dept of Health
Search Florida Health Licensees
MISCELLANEOUS:
Pain relief, prescription drugs, and prosecution: a four-state
survey of chief prosecutors - Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics
Write to your
congressperson. Tell them you support Internet medicine - www.eprescribe.org
THE DEA IS BUSTING DOCTORS FOR PRESCRIBING DRUGS-AND PATIENTS
ARE DYING IN PAIN - Playboy Magazine 1997
Search
Engines Limit Ads for Drugs but Ease Rules on Sex - New York Times
Health Officials Warn Of Dangers Of Unregulated Online
Pharmacies - www.intelihealth.com
Prescription for Trouble? WebMD
Feds hijack illicit sites - CNET News
The
secret of world-wide drug prohibition - CEDRO
Regulating
medical practice in the cyber age - Summer-Fall, 2000 - American Journal of
Law & Medicine
The risks involved in dispensing to on-line patients -
DrugTopics.com - The Online Newsmagazine for Pharmacists
Results of Pharmacists Poll: Should hydrocodone be shifted to
Schedule II? - DrugTopics.com, ibid
Federal assault on painkiller abuse makes patients suffer -
USA TODAY
FOOTNOTES:
1 Quote: Bryson's lawyer, Assistant Federal Public Defender Kurt May, sought leniency for his client. He told the judge that Bryson was helping patients by providing them with comfort when other doctors, who would rather allow patients to continue with pain, would not.
May said that while Bryson acknowledged what he did was wrong, "he
truly believed he was doing some good, and he did do some good for many, many
people. May told the judge that the dichotomy has sharply divided the
medical community, noting that at a physician's conference recently, May saw
doctors on opposite ends of the argument yelling at each other over who was
right.
(ADA) Surovic opposed the request for leniency, saying Bryson did not cooperate
with the government." End of Quote
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