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Justice Department reaches first settlement with opioid manufacturer https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/justice-department-reaches-first-settlement-with-opioid-manufacturer/2017/07/11/93e30328-666d-11e7-a1d7-9a32c91c6f40_story.html The Justice Department and Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals reached a $35 million settlement Tuesday of charges that the company had failed to report signs that large quantities of its highly addictive oxycodone pills were diverted to the black market in Florida, where they helped stoke the opioid epidemic. […]

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Suit alleges Blue Shield improperly denied mental health, drug treatment claims http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/regulatory/suit-alleges-blue-shield-improperly-denied-mental-health-drug-treatment-claims Blue Shield of California and its claims administrator wrongly restricted patients’ access to outpatient and residential mental health treatment, a class-action lawsuit says. Initially filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, the complaint comes from two parents who allege their teenage children were repeatedly […]

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Patient Medication Errors Doubled Over 13 Years http://www.healthleadersmedia.com/quality/patient-medication-errors-doubled-over-13-years The most common errors were taking or giving the wrong medication or incorrect dosage, and inadvertently taking or giving a medication twice, researchers have found.  The frequency of serious medication errors by patients or their caregivers outside of a healthcare setting more than doubled from 2000 to […]

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NACDS Submits Comments to President’s Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis https://www.benzinga.com/pressreleases/17/07/p9759366/nacds-submits-comments-to-presidents-commission-on-combating-drug-addic National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS) President and CEO Steven C. Anderson, IOM, CAE, submitted official comments to the President’s Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis, which is chaired by New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. President […]

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The DEA Are Violating Federal Law Over Recent CBD Claim www.herb.co/2017/07/10/dea-cbd/ The DEA is trying to buckle down on medical cannabis components. However, the legality of CBD products, sourced from industrial hemp with 0.3% THC, became solid by the 2013 Farm Bill, signed into law by then President Obama. But that isn’t stopping them from violating […]

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FDA says physicians will have to receive training to prescribe opioid painkillers www.pulseheadlines.com/fda-physicians-receive-training-prescribe-opioid-painkillers/65025/ The Food and Drug Administration proposed on Monday new guidelines to fight the growing opioid epidemic that’s hitting the U.S., and pledged to make it its priority.  FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb announced plans to require manufacturers of immediate-release painkillers to provide thorough […]

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FDA Chief Says Agency Must Do More to Stop Abuse of Opioids https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-10/fda-chief-says-agency-must-do-more-to-stop-abuse-of-opioids The U.S.’s top drug regulator said on Monday that more must be done to stem the country’s tide of opioid addiction, proposing new guidelines and restrictions on some of the most widely used pain pills. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb […]

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Medication mistakes are on the rise, leading to more serious health problems http://www.cbsnews.com/news/medication-mistakes-causing-more-health-problems-overdoses/ Every minute of every day, three Americans call a poison control center because they’ve made a major mistake with their medication. Some have taken the wrong dose. Some have double-dosed, and others have taken the wrong medicine altogether. The result: the rate […]

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A Call to Duty: DEA Practitioner Registrants Beware—DEA Wants You! http://www.fdalawblog.net/fda_law_blog_hyman_phelps/2017/07/a-call-to-duty-dea-practitioner-registrants-bewaredea-wants-you.html By John A. Gilbert, Jr. & Andrew J. Hull – Individual practitioners represent more than ninety percent of the approximately 1.6 million DEA registrants. We believe it fair to say that of all the types of DEA registrants (e.g., manufacturers, distributors, importers, etc.), individual […]

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DEA admits that weed has never killed anyone http://www.mauinews.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/2017/07/dea-admits-that-weed-has-never-killed-anyone/ The Drug Enforcement Agency-Department of Justice released its latest 94-page report, “Drugs of Abuse,” on June 28. No deaths from cannabis, ever, Page 75; 88,000 deaths from alcohol (National Institute of Health). Got that? The DEA notes that “no deaths from overdose of marijuana have been […]

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