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Training Health Care Providers on Pain Management and Safe Use of Opioid Analgesics—Exploring the Path Forward; Public Workshop; Request for Comments https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=FDA-2017-N-1094-0001 https://www.regulations.gov/comment?D=FDA-2017-N-1094-0001 Summary As part of the work by the Federal Government to address the epidemic of prescription and illicit opioid abuse, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA, the Agency, or we) is announcing […]

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Nurse Replaces Surgeon General After Obama Appointee Resigns www.nytimes.com/2017/04/21/us/politics/surgeon-general-trump-administration.html Rear Adm. Sylvia Trent-Adams, now the acting surgeon general. Credit United States Department of Health and Human Services Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy, an Obama administration holdover, was asked to resign by the Trump administration on Friday. He was replaced by his deputy, Rear Adm. Sylvia […]

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Ex-DEA Spokeswoman: ‘Marijuana Is Safe’, Kept Illegal Because It’s A ‘Cash Cow’ http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-20/ex-dea-spokeswoman-marijuana-safe-kept-illegal-because-its-cash-cow Before the heroin epidemic became a nationwide problem, claiming thousands of lives; Plano, Texas, was already entrenched. And like many of the places caught in the cross hairs of the continuing heroin crisis, Plano is the last place that one would expect […]

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C.O. Truxton, Inc. Issues Voluntary Nationwide Recall of Phenobarbital 15 mg Tablets, USP due to Labeling Error on Declared Strength https://www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/ucm554329.htm? Bellmawr, New Jersey, C.O. Truxton, Inc. is voluntarily recalling lot 70952A of Phenobarbital Tablets, USP, 15 mg, to the consumer/user level. The manufacturer received a confirmed customer complaint that a bottle labeled as phenobarbital […]

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Widow who sued pharmaceutical firm over husband’s suicide awarded $3M http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-paxil-suicide-lawsuit-verdict-met-20170420-story.html A Glencoe woman hugged her attorneys after a jury in Chicago awarded her $3 million Thursday in a lawsuit against a pharmaceutical company that she blamed for her husband’s suicide. “We won!” she mouthed to one of her lawyers. Wendy Dolin’s husband, Stewart, stepped […]

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Statewide View: Winning the drug war? We’re getting it all wrong with opioid-addiction policies http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/opinion/other-view/4228022-statewide-view-winning-drug-war-were-getting-it-all-wrong-opioid# The unprecedented scourge of opioid overdose deaths, which is devastating the Midwest, has not spared Minnesota. Like most other states in the region, increases in deaths have skyrocketed — by as much as fivefold within a few years. Unfortunately, it […]

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Deaths of despair: Millennials turn to drugs, suicide in unforgiving job market http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2017/apr/19/deaths-of-despair-stalk-millennials-in-unforgiving/ Ryan Johnson was 22 when he succumbed to a heroin addiction that had intensified as the Erie, Pennsylvania, high school graduate grew disillusioned with his future. His mother found him in his room with his head slumped and lips blue. It was […]

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Have you ever notice that anytime somebody wants to get something changed.. it normally involves two things MONEY .. donated to a political campaign or MONEY to pay a law firm to file a lawsuit. President Trump tried to put a temporary ban on immigrants from a handful of middle east countries and Attorney Generals […]

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Kept in the Dark: Oregon hides thousands of cases of shoddy senior care http://www.oregonlive.com/health/index.ssf/2017/04/senior_care_abuse_neglect_poor_care_hidden.html Oregon officials have concealed from the public thousands of confirmed cases of shoddy care and elder abuse, whitewashing safety records at hundreds of homes for seniors across the state. The Department of Human Services operates a website that is supposed to help […]

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“The DEA has lost its moral authority”: Rep. Jared Polis pulls no punches in exclusive interview Colorado congressman talks with The Cannabist about marijuana policy, states’ rights, and why Attorney General Jeff Sessions needs to ‘get with the times’ www.thecannabist.co/2017/04/20/colorado-congressman-rep-jared-polis-marijuana-policy-interview/77729/ In his eight years on Capitol Hill, Congressman Jared Polis has doggedly championed cannabis legalization. […]

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