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Pharmacists Slow to Dispense Lifesaving Overdose Drug https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/890852 Gale Dunham, a pharmacist in Calistoga, Calif., knows the devastation the opioid epidemic has wrought, and she is glad the anti-overdose drug naloxone is becoming more accessible. But so far, Dunham said, she has not taken advantage of a California law that allows pharmacists to dispense the […]

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Lawsuit by Doctors in Indiana Against DEA agents and the City www.doctorsofcourage.org/lawsuit-by-doctors-in-indiana-against-dea-agents-and-the-city/ Four doctors in Carmel, IN, a suburb of Indianapolis, have sued the city and government officials responsible for the illegal attack on their clinic, Drug Opiate & Recovery Network (DORN), an addiction center prescribing Suboxone, in July, 2014.  The lawsuit asks for compensatory […]

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Feds employ data-driven early warning system in opioid fight  http://www.telegram.com/zz/news/20180101/feds-employ-data-driven-early-warning-system-in-opioid-fight  Authorities have been going after so-called “pill mills” for years, but a new approach brings additional federal resources to bear against the escalating epidemic. PITTSBURGH — The pain clinic tucked into the corner of a low-slung suburban strip mall was an open secret. Patients would […]

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There is an investigative reporter for the Dallas Observer that wrote a piece on a chronic pain patient and I emailed him and got a response. He asked to tell people to email your stories. His name is Christian McPhate and he has done pieces in large Newspapers around the country. We need an investigative […]

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