Emergency Contraception

Study: Women, physicians wary of advance prescriptions for morning-after pill

Published in Women's Health Weekly, August 19th, 2004

Even though the morning-after pill has been available in the United States for many years, it remains underprescribed and underused, in part because the prescribing model typically used by physicians - emergency prescribing - requires that a patient know about and request the drug after an act of unprotected intercourse.

Given the recent U.S. Food and Drug Administration decision to reject over-the-counter sale of morning-after contraception, many are considering the benefits of an advance prescription model, by which physicians routinely counsel patients and offer them advance prescriptions or an emergency contraception packet during an office visit.

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2004-08-19)

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