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http://www.ksl.com/?sid=44109931&nid=148 SALT LAKE CITY — There is new concern that naloxone, the drug that counteracts an opiate overdose, could be used in what Utah’s Drug Enforcement Administration is calling “Narcan parties.” “Anytime you have something good, a criminal will capitalize on that and use it to their own advantage,” said DEA special agent Brian Besser. […]

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FDA slams Indian API firm for faking certificates of analysis http://www.fiercepharma.com/manufacturing/fda-slams-indian-api-firm-for-faking-certificates-analysis The FDA put India’s Sal Pharma on its import alert list and then issued it a warning letter for putting fake COAs on products that were manufactured by companies that are not approved by the agency and selling them in the U.S. A recent […]

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DEA Seeks Prosecutors To Fight Opioid Crisis; Critics Fear Return To War On Drugs http://www.npr.org/2017/05/04/526784152/dea-seeks-prosecutors-to-fight-opioid-crisis-critics-fear-return-to-war-on-drugs The Drug Enforcement Administration has proposed hiring its own prosecutor corps to bring cases related to drug trafficking, money laundering and asset forfeiture — a move that advocacy groups warn could exceed the DEA’s legal authority and reinvigorate the 1980s-era […]

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Woman with terminal cancer jailed over medication in her system WICHITA, Kan. (KAKE) – A grandmother with terminal cancer is in the Sedgwick County Jail because of THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, in her system while she was driving. But the THC was in her system because it is in a medication her pharmacist […]

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