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Walmart Offers Product To Destroy Leftover Opioids, But Critics Say It’s Unnecessary https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/17/578591771/walmart-offers-product-to-destroy-leftover-opioids-but-critics-say-its-unnecessa Walmart is the latest national company joining in the fight to try to help curb America’s harrowing opioid epidemic, which now kills more people than breast cancer. On Wednesday the chain rolled out a pharmacy product it says provides a safe way […]

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https://www.indystar.com/story/news/2018/01/17/dont-just-prescribe-pain-meds-new-state-guidelines-tell-doctors/1041573001/ Chronic pain physicians had them. So did emergency room doctors. Now outpatient physicians have clear guidelines for managing acute pain without quickly resorting to opioids. The Indiana Hospital Association, Indiana State Medical Association and the Indiana State Department of Health collaborated to produce the guidelines that aim to discourage the overuse of prescription pain […]

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http://www.wbay.com/content/news/Local-pharmacies-losing-business-from-accidental-third-party-letter-470016993.html SHAWANO, Wis. (WBAY) – At least a dozen local pharmacy across Wisconsin are scrambling after a large company recently sent an accidental letter to its customers which claims they needed to switch to big-box pharmacies if they want lower prices. Express Scripts is a Fortune 100 company that handles the benefits between clients and […]

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PhRMA, the powerful Washington-based advocacy group that represents pharmaceutical companies, blasted a proposal by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to levy a 2-cents-per-milligram surtax on opioid prescription medication sold in the state to help fund measures against the drug epidemic. https://www.law.com/newyorklawjournal/sites/newyorklawjournal/2018/01/18/pharma-industry-scorns-governors-opioid-surtax-proposal/ ALBANY—A national trade group representing the pharmaceutical industry is vehemently opposed to a proposal […]

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Jeff Sessions’s War on Pot Goes to Court, Attorney General Will Fight 12-Year-Old With Epilepsy http://www.newsweek.com/jeff-sessions-war-pot-goes-court-attorney-general-will-fight-12-year-old-780749 A 12-year-old suing the federal government may have a whiff of adorableness. But for Alexis Bortell, who filed a lawsuit against Attorney General Jeff Sessions last fall, it’s a choice she had to make to save her life. Alexis has […]

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Bill Introduced to Stop Civil Forfeiture Funding of DEA Marijuana Eradication Program “DEA’s use of proceeds acquired through civil asset forfeiture to expand marijuana enforcement makes the already unacceptable practice even worse.” http://reason.com/blog/2018/01/18/bill-introduced-to-stop-civil-forfeiture Citing waste of taxpayer dollars, shifting public opinion, and constitutional concerns, Reps. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) and Justin Amash (R-Mich.) have introduced a […]

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New Laws Force Drug Users Into Rehab Against Their Will https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-laws-force-drug-users-into-rehab-against-their-will Involuntary commitment laws are being opened up to allow some people to be detained for overdosing or even having visible track marks—in some cases up to 90 days. Debra Hicks went to work on Sept. 19, 2011, to teach California high school students about […]

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