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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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https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/local/2019/07/10/former-jackson-county-deputy-zach-wester-arrested-drug-planting-probe/1691366001/ Fired Jackson County Deputy Zach Wester was arrested Wednesday on racketeering and numerous other charges for allegedly planting meth and other street drugs on unsuspecting motorists before hauling them off to jail. Agents with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, who have been investigating Wester for more than nine months, arrested him in Crawfordville and took […]

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White House kills major drug pricing proposal https://www.axios.com/trump-drug-prices-plan-pharma-ec527a14-0287-492b-937d-a7144c47b734.html A big part of the Trump administration’s plan to lower drug prices is now dead, White House spokesman Judd Deere confirmed to Axios. Why it matters: The administration is backing away from an effort to change the way money flows through federal health care programs — one […]

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