Maine pharmacy board votes to raise age to buy overdose antidote

Bangor Daily News-7 hours ago

Paul LePage, after the Board of Pharmacy voted Thursday morning to raise the age limit to buy the drug from 18 to 21. The board made the decision Thursday as part of an effort to make the drug available without a doctor's prescription. Democrats have criticized both the board and LePage for failing to move forward on ...

Pharmacy board raises age for those allowed to buy lifesaving ...
Press Herald-7 hours ago

State Pharmacy Board Changes Age Limit For Buying Naloxone ...
WABI-3 hours ago

Maine pharmacy board lifts age limit for naloxone without Rx
WGME-3 hours ago

Naloxone expansion rules to go before Maine pharmacy board
News & Observer-16 hours ago

Drug-insurance trims too deep, Arkansas pharmacies say

Arkansas Online-11 hours ago

They spoke at a meeting of the Arkansas Health Insurance Marketplace Oversight Subcommittee before an overflow audience of pharmacists, pharmacy students and others at the Multi-Agency Complex near the state Capitol. Cissy Clark, owner of Clark's Family Pharmacy in Earle, said about 22 percent of the prescriptions ...

Pharmacists: New Reimbursement Rates for Drugs Unsustainable
Arkansas Business Online-8 hours ago

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Term Sheet -- Thursday, February 1

Fortune-7 hours ago

Caffeine, a social broadcasting platform, raised $46 million in funding across two rounds. Investors include Andreessen Horowitz and Greylock Partners. • QuVa Pharma, a Sugar Land, Texas-based platform for sterile compounding pharmacyservices, raised up to $40 million in debt and equity funding. The funding includes ...

Execution bills advanced by South Carolina Senate Corrections ...

Greenville News-2 hours ago

So-called shield laws are used in 15 states, but opponents have argued states are now relying on inadequately vetted means, including new execution drugs or mixtures often made by compounding pharmacies, and they say those have helped lead to executions that have been botched, with witnesses reporting inmates ..

Pleasantville guidance counselor pleads guilty in federal health ...

Press of Atlantic City-5 hours ago

According to federal court documents, this drug ring targeted the state's health benefits plan by submitting fraudulent prescriptions for unneeded compoundeddrugs, which ... In exchange for prescriptions, recruiters and doctors would receive kickbacks from an out-of-state compounding pharmacy and pay co-conspirators, ...