There is no legal duty to tell a patient they have been prescribed a drug ‘off label’.
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Antipsychotics can have severe side effects, there’s a lack of guidance on how to stop taking these drugs safely.
The CDC’s COVID-19 vaccine provider agreement prohibits health care professionals from administering the vaccines in people for whom they are not yet authorized or approved. But this departs from longstanding norms.
When news reports tout a drug, people get interested, even if the benefits are unproven. Patient hopes, requests and demands can easily turn into real prescriptions in their doctor’s office.
Quetiapine is an antipsychotic drug to treat severe mental illness, but it makes people feel sleepy, so has also been used as a sleeping pill – by prescription and illicitly.
Prescribing a drug for a condition it hasn’t been tested for may sound reckless, but off-label prescribing has a useful function in medicine.
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Associate Professor, Mental Health and Addiction, Rural Health Research Institute, Charles Sturt University
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Senior Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice, University of Portsmouth
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Teaching Fellow in Pharmacy Practice, Kingston University
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Professor of Health Policy and Internal Medicine, University of California, Davis
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Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Bioethicist, University of Cincinnati
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Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Adjunct Professor of Law, George Mason University
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Lecturer, Pharmacy Practice, Newcastle University
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