US regulators are proposing limits on telehealth prescriptions of certain medications to combat the country’s growing opioid crisis.
Patients will be required to attend at least one in-person consultation to obtain prescriptions of controlled medications such as the painkillers Oxycodone and Vicodin, as well as Adderall and Ritalin — used to treat attention deficit disorder, according to new rules proposed by the Drug Enforcement Administration.
Rules were eased during the Covid-19 pandemic, effectively allowing doctors to prescribe even the most-addictive drugs to patients they have never met in person. The new proposal marks an effort by the Biden administration to ...