American Veterinary Medical Association
[1] The AVMA provides information resources, continuing education opportunities, publications, and discounts on personal and professional products, programs, and services.[1] In addition to treating pets, veterinarians work in a number of fields, such as public health, agriculture, food safety, academics, and the military.[9] In its guidelines, the AVMA relied only on one report from North Carolina State University and argued this gave evidence that VSD+ provided sufficiently limited suffering.[10] However, this unpublished report's methodology has been questioned by organizations such as the Animal Welfare Institute for using an untested metric for stress (using heat shock protein 70), containing mathematical errors, having unclear writing, and more."[15] Due to an interpretation of the law by the Drug Enforcement Administration, veterinarians were not allowed to travel to their off-site animal patients with controlled substances.