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Massachusetts’ contentious tactic to fight its opioid crisis: jailing addicts https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/23/massachusetts-contentious-tactic-to-fight-its-opioid-crisis-jailing-addicts State is placing persons who are involuntarily committed to treatment – the section 35 process – in jail or prison even though no charges have been levied against them Josh Wood in Ludlow, Massachusetts Sheriff Nick Cocchi, left, on his way to visit men […]

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Alvogen Inc. Issues Voluntary Nationwide Recall of Fentanyl Transdermal System Due to Product Mislabeling https://www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/ucm636384.htm Alvogen, Inc. is voluntarily recalling two lots of Fentanyl Transdermal System 12 mcg/h transdermal patches to the consumer level. A small number of cartons labeled 12 mcg/h Fentanyl Transdermal System patches contained 50 mcg/h patches. The 50 mcg/h patches that […]

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https://abcnews.go.com/US/drug-executive-laurence-doud-iii-arrested-opioids/story?id=62575543 Federal prosecutors charged drug distributor Rochester Drug Cooperative and its former CEO with drug trafficking charges Tuesday — the first criminal charges for a pharmaceutical company and executives in the nation’s ongoing opioid crisis. The charges signify a groundbreaking move by the government to try to combat the opioid epidemic, which kills 130 Americans […]

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