Pushing Drugs or Pushing the Envelope: The Prosecution of Doctors in Connection with Over-Prescribing of Opium-Based Drugs

Deborah Hellman;

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Pushing Drugs or Pushing the Envelope: The Prosecution of Doctors in Connection with Over-Prescribing of Opium-Based Drugs

Deborah Hellman

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Philosophy & Public Policy Quarterly

DATE

2008 Winter

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Deborah Hellman

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Deborah Hellman, Pushing Drugs or Pushing the Envelope: The Prosecution of Doctors in Connection with Over-Prescribing of Opium-Based Drugs, Philosophy & Public Policy Quarterly 7-12 (2008).

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