Can CAM Docs Legally Prescribe and Sell Herbals and Nutritional Supplements as Therapy without Bad Things Happening? Prescribe, YES. Sell? WE’LL SEE
Many CAM and integrative doctors recommend and/or sell all kinds of nutritional and herbal products to their patients. There is a supplement manufacturer sub-industry which only sells to physicians and other health care professionals, for resale to patients. And most of the top tier, high profile docs have their own private label supplement brands. That’s a fact. But is it legal and ethical to do so? Legal is a matter of state law. But for better, (but mostly) for worse,…