Should Antibiotics Be Controlled Medicines? Lessons from the Controlled Drug Regimen.

J Law Med Ethics

Live Storehagen, M.Pharm., M.Phil., is an advisor on global health and antimicrobial resistance for the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH) in Oslo, Norway. Friha Aftab, M.D., is working at the Oslo University Hospital, Norway. She wrote her dr.med. thesis on controlled medicines and antibio

Published: June 2018


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This study aimed to identify the antibiotic-relevant lessons from the controlled drug regimen for narcotics. Whereas several elements of the United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs (1961) could be advantageous for antibiotics, we doubt that an international legally binding agreement for controlling antibiotic consumption would be any more effective than implementing stewardship measures through national AMR plans.

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