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Congressional Bills Target Patient Care Access, Opioid Treatment https://patientengagementhit.com/news/congressional-bills-target-patient-care-access-opioid-treatment The legislation would improve patient care access and access to medication assisted treatment for opioid use disorder. July 12, 2019 – Bipartisan legislation in the House of Representatives and Senate would abolish administrative barriers that keep some providers from prescribing medication assisted treatment, thus expanding patient care […]

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Lawmakers Look To Address ‘Staggering’ Diabetes Costs In Wisconsin https://www.wpr.org/lawmakers-look-address-staggering-diabetes-costs-wisconsin Bipartisan Bill Calls For State Health Officials To Create Action Plan To Reduce Diabetes By Shamane Mills Published:  Friday, July 12, 2019, 5:55am Share:  ListenDownload It’s a health problem that a Wisconsin lawmaker calls “staggering” and which is expected to get worse.  Two out of […]

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https://www.harris.senate.gov/news/press-releases/harris-senators-press-hhs-about-public-health-impact-of-fentanyl-related-scheduling WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Kamala D. Harris (D-CA), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Mike Lee (R-UT), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Chris Coons (D-DE), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), and Cory Booker (D-NJ), all members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, sent a bipartisan letter to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar about […]

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Walmart Should Get Out of Pharmacy http://pharmacistactivist.com/2019/July_2019.shtml Walmart has terminated hundreds of pharmacists and technicians! But before addressing this action, let’s identify an extremely important event that has had a large influence on Walmart’s not being able to operate its pharmacies as profitably as it wants to. Walmart recently withdrew from the network of pharmacies […]

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 Mother says local pharmacy gave her wrong pills for son who has autism https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/bartow-county/mother-says-local-pharmacy-gave-her-the-wrong-pills-for-son-who-has-autism/966164831 CARTERSVILLE, Ga. – A Cartersville mother has an important warning for others after she says a local CVS pharmacist filled her 13-year-old son’s prescription with the wrong medicine. Susanne Epps Jones told Channel 2’s Alyssa Hyman that her son, Elijah, […]

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‘Fighting the wrong war’: Chronic pain patients push feds to change opioid policies https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2019/07/12/opioid-rules-reassessed-amid-outcry-patients-needing-painkillers/1705026001/ David Lackey spent 40 years running his machine repair business, despite having a body wracked by arthritis, degenerative disc disease, bone spurs in his shoulders and fractures in his back and spine.  After the Drug Enforcement Administration raided his pain doctor’s […]

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Legislation aims to change opioid labeling https://www.register-herald.com/health/legislation-aims-to-change-opioid-labeling/article_5eb29c8f-866f-5156-ba8b-ba74f3a62f9f.html Two U.S. Senators introduced a piece of legislation Thursday which would prohibit the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from allowing opioids to be labeled for intended use of “around-the clock, long-term opioid treatment.” The FDA Opioid Labeling Accuracy Act, introduced by U.S. Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Mike […]

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