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DEA, FDA discuss prescription problems at U.S. Senate hearing http://www.wesh.com/health/dea-fda-discuss-prescription-problems-at-us-senate-hearing/32876832 VIDEO ON WEBSITE The U.S. Senate took up the issue of patients with legitimate scrips for medicine being denied prescriptions at the pharmacy counter. “I am immensely proud of the DEA work that I saw,” Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island) said. The Drug […]
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In case you’re overdosing Pharmacists in California can now provide opioid overdose antidote https://www.newsreview.com/chico/in-case-youre-overdosing/content?oid=17035234 It’s now legal for pharmacists in California to hand over an antidote for opioid overdose without a prescription. Following last year’s passage of AB 1535 by Assemblyman Richard Bloom (D-Santa Monica), in April the state Board of Pharmacy approved making naloxone […]
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Government Report Slams DEA for Oversight of Drug Production Quota System http://www.raps.org/Regulatory-Focus/News/2015/05/07/22120/Government-Report-Slams-DEA-for-Oversight-of-Drug-Production-Quota-System/#sthash.uswKIrl2.dpuf Shortages of some pharmaceutical products could be alleviated if the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) coordinated its efforts to control the supply of some drugs more closely with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), a new government report has found. Background In the […]
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Unwanted prescription meds pile up in police storage after DEA program ends http://www.cpr.org/news/story/unwanted-prescription-meds-pile-police-storage-after-dea-program-ends#sthash.13p8Qc1F.dpuf All these medications were disposed of in one of the DEA-sponsored medication take-back days in Colorado. Across Colorado, law enforcement agencies are filling up storage rooms with unwanted prescription medications.The glut is the legacy of a Drug Enforcement Agency program that was set up […]
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DEA Agents Started Fort Lauderdale Confrontation: Lawyer The attorney for one of the men accused in an attack on DEA agents in Fort Lauderdale claims the agents instigated the confrontation and called his client the N word. Steven Jenrette, 22, and Gregory Bradley, 29 were arrested in the March 5 incident at Bokampers at 3115 […]
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Attorney: Man charged in Rite Aid killing legally insane http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/local/2015/05/07/ricard-taylor-trial-begins/70906934/ MASON – The day before Ricard Taylor allegedly shot and killed his neighbor, he asked him if he wanted to die and wanted to feel what it was like to get shot, witnesses testified Thursday. Taylor, 35, and his East Lansing neighbor, 27-year-old Jordan Rogers, […]
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Both of these “people” are in their 80’s (in human years)… if they were seen by their doctor… and both were suffering from chronic pain… which one do you think is more likely to get appropriate pain management ? Does one or both deserve to have their quality of life optimized and their pain minimized […]
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2 Investigators: Boy Almost Dies After Prescription Misfilled http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2015/05/06/2-investigators-boy-almost-dies-after-prescription-misfilled/ (CBS) — More than 1.3 million people are injured every year from medication errors according to FDA estimates. Some pharmacy errors have been deadly and as CBS 2 Investigative Reporter Pam Zekman found out, regulatory oversight of pharmacy errors here in Illinois has been hampered by […]
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