Professional Status and Physicians' Views of Expanding Governmental Oversight of Prescribing Drugs

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AUTOR(ES) Ben Lennox Kail , Eric R. Wright , Neal A. Carnes , Wyndy Greene Smelser
AFILIAÇÃO(ÕES) Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA, WGS Consulting LLC, Kennesaw, GA, USA
ANO 2017
TIPO Artigo
PERIÓDICO Socius Sociological Research for a Dynamic World
ISSN 2378-0231
E-ISSN 2378-0231
DOI 10.1177/2378023117707647
ADICIONADO EM 2025-08-18
MD5 4e79ed53c11e3ddc3e797e5b4f0f188c

Resumo

Prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) represent new challenges to physicians' professional autonomy and authority. In this study, physicians' attitudes toward government officials' use of PDMP data are explored using online survey data. In general, the physicians surveyed ( n = 2,444) expressed qualified support of criminal justice officials' accessing PDMP data to combat abuse. Also, doctors with higher professional status, older physicians, and those who prescribed more opioids were significantly less supportive of criminal justice oversight. The findings have implications both for reducing the prescription drug epidemic and for sociological research on the profession of medicine.

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