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  http://investigations.blog.ajc.com/2018/02/07/secrecy-rules-at-the-georgia-composite-medical-board/   Shoddy care by doctors. Sexual misconduct. Malpractice cases that led to $1 million settlements. Violations involving prescription drugs. Those are among the serious allegations made against Georgia doctors last year in formal complaints. But the public will never know the details of how the Georgia Composite Medical Board handled the vast majority […]

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Death investigation highlights problematic coroner system in state https://www.columbiamissourian.com/news/state_news/death-investigation-highlights-problematic-coroner-system-in-state/article_e1e4b5f0-0b98-11e8-897b-7fa32d65f210.html FAYETTE — Missouri’s coroners don’t have many requirements to get the job. Some do not even attend training sessions, according to the coroners’ professional association. Some county coroners are concerned cases are being mishandled, deaths are going under-investigated, and too few autopsies are being ordered. They […]

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South Dakota lawmaker looks to rein in opioid painkiller prescriptions http://www.argusleader.com/story/news/politics/2018/02/06/south-dakota-lawmaker-looks-reign-opioid-painkiller-prescriptions/306626002/ PIERRE — Doctors would only be able to prescribe seven days’ worth of opioid painkillers to children or patients taking the drugs for the first time under a bill up for consideration Wednesday in the Statehouse. Under Senate Bill 176, physicians would be required to consider […]

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http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/02/07/john-stossel-war-on-drugs-is-just-like-prohibition-and-it-wont-work-either.html Ross Ulbricht was a quiet nerd — an Eagle Scout who never cursed. Then he became a libertarian, and he decided, “I want to use economic theory as a means to abolish the use of coercion.” By coercion, Ulbricht meant force. He viewed laws against drugs as coercion — government force that stops people […]

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http://www.dailytimesleader.com/content/opioid-epidemic-prompting-prescription-changes WEST POINT, MS The opioid epidemic has gotten so bad in Mississippi and other states that doctors are beginning to make their patients sign waivers agreeing to take random drug tests if the doctor suspects the patient may be abusing the drugs or diverting them to others. It’s one of several changes the state […]

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Pharmacy coalition to Trump administration: Meet with us about opioid crisis The National Conference of Pharmaceutical Organizations (NCPO), a coalition of organizations representing more than 300,000 pharmacy practitioners, pharmaceutical scientists, pharmacy regulators, and pharmacy educators, has invited the Trump administration to meet to discuss ways of addressing the nation’s opioid crisis. Noting that each day […]

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https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2018/02/06/fentanyl-found-in-naloxone-kit-a-freak-accident-says-ontario-government.html Kits used to reverse opiod overdoses that has caused thousands of deaths in recent years. In what the province is calling an “isolated incident,” fentanyl was found in a naloxone kit assembled at a pharmacy, the Star has learned. A person received a naloxone kit, which is used to reverse opioid overdoses, on Monday […]

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U.S. Attorney General Talks Opioid Crisis: ‘Take Some Aspirin’ http://wusfnews.wusf.usf.edu/post/us-attorney-general-talks-opioid-crisis-take-some-aspirin As he addressed a crowd of prosecutors and police officers at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida, Sessions offered his opinion for preventing addiction. “I believe – and I am operating under the assumption – that this country prescribes too many […]

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https://www.aclu.org/blog/disability-rights/integration-and-autonomy-people-disabilities/congress-let-important Imagine spending your life under someone else’s control, having to ask for permission each time you wanted to go out to eat, invite someone over, stay out late, or use the internet. For many Americans, this is their reality. Life in institutions and nursing homes often involves severe deprivations of the basic freedoms others […]

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https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/892412 The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is proposing that beginning in 2019, initial opioid prescriptions for acute pain be limited to 7 days. The agency is also suggesting in the 2018 Draft Call Letter that Medicare Part D prescription drug plans monitor patients who take medications considered to be “potentiators” of opioid […]

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