Doctors Join Fight Against Prescription Drug Abuse
Scripps Mercy Emergency Medicine Physician Speaks Out
![Prescription Drug Medical Task Force chair, spoke with local news about the need for San Diego physicians to work together under stricter prescribing guidelines.](http://www.scripps.org/sparkle-assets/images/rx-drugs-pr-600x375.jpg)
Roneet Lev, MD, emergency medicine physician at Scripps Mercy Hospital, was interviewed for an article in the U-T San Diego on what San Diego physicians are doing to combat prescription drug abuse.
In her interview Dr. Lev shared details on a new task force that she chairs, Prescription Drug Medical Task Force, and the need for San Diego physicians to work together under stricter prescribing guidelines.
“This is a societal problem and the medical community plays a piece,” Dr. Lev shared. “Medications are very helpful, but they can become a poison when not taken correctly.”
Read the article Doctors a Front in War on Illicit Prescriptions
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