Government
Doctors vote for crackdown on unsafe online drug sales
NEWS IN BRIEF — Posted Jan. 5, 2004
To cut down on the unsafe sale of prescription drugs over the Internet, organized medicine will lobby state and federal government agencies to enforce laws and regulations already in place that make certain online pharmaceutical prescribing practices illegal. The American Medical Association and state and specialty societies also will ask the government to prosecute companies to make sure that illegal operations are shut down.
The directive came from the AMA House of Delegates at its Interim Meeting last month. The AMA also reaffirmed a policy and an ethical opinion that establish guidelines for using the Internet in health care settings.
Note: This item originally appeared at http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2004/01/05/gvbf0105.htm.