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March 25, 1939, Vol 112, No. 12 >
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WRITING PRESCRIPTIONS FOR NARCOTICS

J. O. E. Neven
JAMA. 1939;112(12):1182. doi:10.1001/jama.1939.02800120068027.
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To the Editor:—  As a subscriber to The Journal, I should like to call attention to a matter which is causing me and many other careful pharmacists, I know, many a "headache." That is the careless way in which most physicians write prescriptions for narcotics. There is scarcely a prescription offered for compounding in my prescription department that is 100 per cent properly written. Most of them fail in at least two or three points. The name is often not properly written, the age is seldom given, and the physician's signature is often not properly signed.To me this is an important point in the writing of narcotic prescriptions, and I believe that you would confer an important favor to both physicians and pharmacists by calling attention to this matter.Following is the text of a circular issued by the Kings County Pharmaceutical Society:

NARCOTIC PRESCRIPTION REGULATIONS 

  1. Must be written

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