| Hans-Günter Meyer-Thompson | International
USA. Doctors Rush to Use Supreme Court Ruling to Escape Opioid Charges
USA. Doctors Rush to Use Supreme Court Ruling to Escape Opioid Charges
(…) Previously, lower courts had not considered a prescriber’s intention. Until now, doctors on trial largely could not defend themselves by arguing they were acting in good faith when they wrote bad prescriptions. Now they can, attorneys say, although it is not necessarily a get-out-of-jail-free card. (KHN – Kaiser Health News, USA, 19.09.2022)
https://khn.org/news/article/opioid-prescribing-doctors-use-supreme-court-ruling-to-escape-charges/