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NewsNew strategies needed to prevent opioid abuse, deaths
Healthcare providers should consider improved strategies to reduce abuse or even deaths related to opioid use, according to a new study from National Institute on Drug Abuse researchers. The Read more...
33 Medicaid patients allegedly supplied drug dealers
Medicaid patients are drug dealers' newest suppliers, according to the Associated Press. Police in Buffalo, N.Y., have busted 33 people so far in a crackdown on Medicaid patients who allegedly sold Read more...
Doctor who traded painkillers to drug addict for sex has license pulled
A well respected University of Washington doctor had his medical license suspended this week and is the target of a criminal investigation after allegedly trading OxyContin tablets for sex with a Read more...
Oxycodone linked to rising opioid-related deaths
A new study conducted in the Canadian province of Ontario has concluded that abusive use has boosted the number of deaths related to opioid drug oxycodone. The study, published in the journal CMAJ, Read more...
Senators urge end to fight over e-prescribing controlled substances
For a couple of years now, regulatory agencies and legislators have been wrangling over e-prescribing. On the whole, legislators and health officials seem pretty convinced that e-prescribing is a Read more...
Questionable doctor continued to prescribe drugs illegally after conviction
Critics of Pennsylvania's discipline of wayward doctors now have a prime example: an incompetent doctor that continued to practice even after being convicted of a felony. Richard A. Brown may not Read more...
FDA finds 20 drugs that could cause serious adverse reactions
The FDA has released its first quarterly report analyzing drugs for safety risks, concluding that at least 20 drugs have been found to cause serious adverse reactions. The report, the first of an Read more...
Study: Accidental drug overdose rates hit new high
A new study suggests that deaths from medical mistakes at home have gone up substantially over the last two decades, driven largely by growing home use of prescription painkillers and other drugs Read more...
DEA wants tough rules for e-prescribing controlled drugs
For a long time, government officials, health plans and IT vendors have been trying to get doctors to write prescriptions electronically. Many doctors have held back, though, because at least 10 Read more...
Pharmas may be able to drag suits to federal court
Increasingly, consumers who feel that they've been injured by drugs are taking their case to state courts. Their adversaries, the pharmaceutical companies, have long contended that the cases had no Read more...
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