Getting Doctors To Stop Prescribing Codeine To Kids Has Taken Years
After the Food and Drug Administration told doctors to quit prescribing codeine to children after tonsillectomies because it could be deadly, some doctors kept on prescribing.
For years the Food and Drug Administration has been trying to get doctors to quit prescribing codeine, an opioid painkiller, to children after getting their tonsils or adenoids out.
But it can be hard to get clinicians to change their prescribing habits,
