Don't forget the DEA, who are chartered with keeping tabs on doctors who overprescribe. There's also the factor of systemic issues that drove doctors to overpr

Don't forget the DEA, who are chartered with keeping tabs on doctors who overprescribe. There's also the factor of systemic issues that drove doctors to overprescribe: Pain Management Questionnaires[1]: > ...pain management is the only clinical measurement among eight components of Hospital Value-Based Purchasing, and many physicians see their patient satisfaction scores in patient surveys drop as a result of changes in their prescribing practices. These scores affect compensation and promotion. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4880256/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4880256/