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Thursday, February 8, 2018
Paduda: An Anesthesiologist on Opioid Addiction and Treatment
WorkCompCentral-15 hours ago
Some doctors are changing the way they talk about and address pain, offering hope that fewer opioid addicts will be created. Joe Paduda. And we are starting ... I learned a lot in a recent interview with Dr. Faye Jamali, a California anesthesiologist who found her brain “hijacked” by opioids. According to Dr. Jamali, it began
Civil Jury Finds Virginia Doctor Liable in Woman's Opioid-Related ...
NBC4 Washington-18 hours ago
A civil jury in Prince William County, Virginia, has found an orthopedic surgeon liable for a woman's opioid-related death. Mary Jo Curtis, 57, was found dead in her home in June 2014. Curtis accidentally overdosed on a combination of oxycodone and alcohol. On Wednesday, Dr. Christopher Highfill, an orthopedic surgeon ...
All forms of deadly opioid fentanyl illegal under temporary DEA order
Tribune-Review-7 hours ago
All forms of illicitly-manufactured opioid fentanyl, including ones that have not been introduced to drug users in the United States, are now illegal under a temporary order this week from the Drug Enforcement Administration. The move is in response to an explosion of drug overdose deaths connected to the potent synthetic ...
County to file lawsuit against opioid manufacturers, distributors
Bemidji Pioneer-8 hours ago
According to the St. Paul Pioneer Press, in 2016, Minnesota health care providers wrote 3.5 million prescriptions for opioids. In many of the lawsuits already filed, the Pioneer Press reports that attorneys are alleging the flood of pills is due to a dishonest campaign going back to the late 1990s to convince doctors that opioids
Horry County to sue opioid manufacturers, choosing a different ...
Charleston Post Courier-3 hours ago
As the opioid crisis continues to worsen in South Carolina, a handful of county governments are choosing to sue major drug companies and distributors for damages. The counties' leadership say they've lost millions in police and medical response to overdoses, health care and coping with their population's addiction
Scientists warn Trump administration that banning kratom will result ...
Washington Examiner-37 minutes ago
The scientists pleaded against a kratom ban in a letter sent to Robert Patterson, acting administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration, and Kellyanne Conway, counselor to the president who is overseeing the administration's efforts on the opioid crisis. They raised doubts about the deaths determined to be associat
$6 billion allotted to fight opioid epidemic — here's how we should ...
The Hill-7 hours ago
In December 2016, President Obama presided over his last official bill signing ceremony. The bill before him was the 21st Century Cures Act, a bill that authorized $1 billion to tackle the opioid epidemic. At the time, the figure was an unprecedented sum. In February 2018, over a year and almost 100,000 overdose deaths ...
Georgia Senate Approves Bills On Opioid Epidemic, Health Council
WABE 90.1 FM-7 hours ago
A key state senator said Wednesday that she expects Georgia's fight against the opioid epidemic to draw funding from the Legislature through the budget process. Sen. Renee Unterman, a Buford Republican, made the remarks after the Senate unanimously approved a bill that would establish a Georgia director of ...
Here's why Multnomah County's $250M opioid lawsuit isn't bound ...
Portland Business Journal-9 hours ago
The $250 million lawsuit Multnomah County filed against a host of opioid manufacturers is heading back to state court, contrary to drugmakers' wishes. Mallinckrodt LLC had removed the case from Multnomah County Circuit Court and transferred it to U.S. District Court in Portland. The company wanted to sever four Oregon ...
What is the Cost of Opioid Addiction in Your State? Here Are the ...
Nonprofit Quarterly-7 hours ago
To date, the opioid crisis has led to the filing of over 100 lawsuits by state and local governments and American Indian nations. Figuring out the costs of the opioid crisis is not easy, reports Liz Farmer in Governing. But estimates of total costs, when including the economic value of lives lost, have topped $500 billion a year ...
CMS Proposes Part D Opioid Limits, Pharmacy Reacts
ModernMedicine-6 hours ago
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' new Medicare Part D proposal calls for a seven-day supply limit on opioid prescriptions and other efforts to help battle the opioid epidemic. The new proposal, which would go into effect in 2019, includes new hard formulary levels at pharmacies that would restrict the amount of
Saco the latest Maine community to join lawsuit against opioid makers
Bangor Daily News-8 hours ago
“In order to treat and abate the opioid epidemic, the city has needed to shift resources that could have otherwise been used for various improvements and the general betterment of the city,” wrote Sutherland. The cities of Saco and Biddeford in a joint effort created the Saco Biddeford Opiate Outreach Initiative with the help of
FDA: Herbal supplement may have opioid affect
FDA: Herbal supplement may have opioid affect
Joplin Globe-8 hours ago
(CNN) - The Food and Drug Administration has issued a new warning about the popular herbal supplement Kratom. Kratom may have the same effect on the body as opioids, according to the FDA. Kratom has been used around the
Mississippi Senate advances bill addressing opioid crisis
Jackson Clarion Ledger-Feb 7, 2018
“We've got to find ways to help law enforcement, the health care community, and, most importantly, Mississippi families fight the opioid crisis,” Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves said in a statement. “As we move through the session, these bills will allow legislators to consider issues of addiction, medical and local government burdens ...
Experts Say Oklahoma's Opioid Plan Does Little to Expand Treatment
StateImpact Oklahoma-11 hours ago
Drug overdose deaths in Oklahoma increased 91 percent over the last decade and a half, prompting the state to form a task force charged with a daunting goal: Brainstorm a plan to guide the state out of an opioid epidemic that kills three Oklahomans nearly every day. The Commission on Opioid Abuse released its final
Maryland sues Insys to enforce subpoena in opioid probe
Reuters-2 hours ago
It has said that it has taken steps to prevent past mistakes from happening again and has said that Subsys made up 0.02 percent of opioid prescriptions in 2016. Insys has found itself at the center of several lawsuits and investigations focused on Subsys, an under-the-tongue spray intended for cancer patients that contains ...
More Than 60 US Cities Are Suing Big Pharma Over Opioids Next City-11 hours ago
Opinion: Opioid litigation is a slippery slope for Alabama
Montgomery Advertiser-6 hours ago
This month, Alabama became the 14th state to file a lawsuit against the makers of OxyContin and other opioids in a move to lay the blame for the nation's drug epidemic at the feet of the manufacturer of the drugs. More: Alabama AG's office sues Purdue over opioid marketing. The state's attorney general, Steve Marshall, ...
History repeats itself with opioid epidemic
Poughkeepsie Journal-4 hours ago
Experts have a term for what happens when memories of a drug's tragic repercussions fade away, leaving a society to eventually repeat the same mistakes as their ancestors. Generational forgetting. It is what one drug historian theorizes might have happened to help lead America to its current opioid epidemic — the .
County Farm Bureaus in Ohio putting opioid crisis in focus
Ohio's Country Journal and Ohio Ag Net-15 hours ago
Every day, more than 90 Americans die after overdosing on opioids. The misuse of and addiction to opioids — including prescription pain relievers, heroin, and synthetic opioids such as fentanyl — is a serious national crisis that affects public health as well as social and economic welfare. The Centers for Disease Control ...
Trump says he will focus on opioid law enforcement, not treatment
KTOO-4 hours ago
Some officials and care providers who work on the frontlines of the opioid crisis, however, are scathing about what they see as a lack of action from the White House. Former Congressman Patrick Kennedy, who served on the White House opioidcommission, says he's “incredulous” that, after declaring a public health
'Kryptonite' Guitarist's Family Says Doctor Fed Opioid Habit
U.S. News & World Report-6 hours ago
19, 2005 file photo, Matthew Roberts of Three Doors Down performs at halftime of the New York Giants New Orleans Saints game in East Rutherford, N.J. The family of Roberts, who died of a drug overdose in 2016, says in a lawsuit that an Alabama doctor fueled the musician's opioid addiction. In a lawsuit filed recently in ...
Congress's budget deal doesn't do enough to fight the opioid crisis
Vox-1 hour ago
Congress may soon commit some cash to an opioid epidemic that has caused hundreds of thousands of drug overdose deaths since the late 1990s. But experts aren't convinced the money will be enough — or if it will even go to the right solutions. A new two-year budget deal, which the House and Senate are expected t
With the opioid epidemic raging, San Francisco takes a smart ...
Los Angeles Times-11 hours ago
They argued that the damage from drug addiction is so serious — people dying from opioid overdoses and used needles littering the street — that it demands extralegal action. San Francisco is taking a gamble, of course, since it's a violation of state and federal law to operate a facility where people consume illicit drugs.
Drug Industry Wages Opioid Fight Using an Anti-Addiction Ally
New York Times-6 hours ago
As Minnesota lawmakers prepared to push a proposed tax on opioid sales in November, the pharmaceutical industry lobbyists who opposed the bill set up a meeting with its sponsors, and they brought an unusual guest: Jessica Hulsey Nickel, a prominent anti-addiction advocate in Washington. Ms. Nickel told the ...
Doctor dispensing is no longer relevant and undermines pharmacy
The Pharmaceutical Journal-9 hours ago
Surely, in the 21st century — when students who have chosen pharmacy endure four demanding years in college followed by a further year in practice before sitting a final examination — it is fundamentally wrong that unqualified people are allowed to dispense medicines to members of the public. I find it even more ...
After botched prescription refill, Wisconsin pharmacist settles with ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel-9 hours ago
On June 2, 2014, Barbara Hall picked up her prescription for methadone, an opioid she had been taking for more than a year. Four days later, the 67-year-old woman's daughter found her dead in her East Troy home. Soon afterward, a pharmacist at Miller Pharmacy in Mukwonago discovered that a fellow druggist had erred ...
ULM Pharmacy school on probation
The Franklin Sun-12 hours ago
The University of Louisiana-Monroe's School of Pharmacy's failure in recent years to comply with certain accreditation standards such as the sufficient retention of ... Dr. Glenn Anderson, who is the dean of the College of Health and Pharmaceutical Sciences, told The Ouachita Citizen on Monday the School of Pharmacy had ...
ULM School of Pharmacy on probation
MyArkLaMiss (press release) (blog)-11 minutes ago
MONROE, La. - After a recent review of the University of Louisiana Monroe's school of Pharmacy, many are asking, what put its accreditation on probation? And how does this affect students? Hannah Daniel, a student, says there's no place like the school of Pharmacy. "We have our little saying we're like a 'pharmily'
Alta View Animal Hospital owner faces new state charges--including acting as a pharmacy by compounding drugs
Alta View Animal Hospital owner faces new state charges
Mountain View Voice-4 hours ago
... Ghumman and Alta View were negligent in their care of animals and engaged in unprofessional conduct that includes: failure to provide humane treatment; false advertising; acting as a pharmacy by compounding drugs; negligence and incompetence in administering medication; and numerous record-keeping violations.
Ex-pharmaceutical employee headed to prison for $1M compounding prescription scheme
Ex-pharmaceutical employee headed to prison for $1M prescription ...
NJ.com-10 hours ago
The compounding pharmacies would next bill Andresen's prescription drug benefit plan. The pharmaceutical company's prescription drug benefit plan reimbursed the compounding pharmacies $13,572 to $43,689 for each compounded medication Andresen and her husband received. The marketing company received a ...
Wednesday, February 7, 2018
College calls drug-dispensing mistake that led to patient's death a ...
CBC.ca-Feb 6, 2018
Quality assurance needed. The college said the error was made in the "compoundingsuite," when a Ford staff member selected an incorrect compounding sheet to prepare the patient's prescription — a sheet for a 10 mg/mL concentration of baclofen instead of 2 mg/mL. Pharmacists use compounding sheets when they
County Spends $145 Million Battling Lawsuits
Patch.com-19 hours ago
The report was not on a list of pre-board meeting "highlights" published weekly by the county's public information office, though the $1.3 million purchase of a mobile compounding pharmacy was listed as an item of interest. Subscribe. According to the report, nearly half of the $145 million total was spent on attorneys' fees ...
High Importance!! Former NFL Player Convicted Over $40M Tricare Fraud
Former NFL Player Convicted Over $40M Tricare Fraud
Law360-15 hours ago
Law360 (February 6, 2018, 5:50 PM EST) -- Former NFL player Monty Grow was convicted Monday by a Florida federal jury of receiving millions of dollars in kickbacks to steer patients to a compounding pharmacy as part of a $40 million scheme to charge Tricare for expensive, unnecessary drugs. Grow, a 46-year-old who
AmerisourceBergen gets US subpoena regarding Memphis plant
Reuters-20 hours ago
(Reuters) - AmerisourceBergen Corp (ABC.N) on Tuesday said it received a grand jury subpoena from U.S. prosecutors seeking documents related to laboratory testing procedures at a facility that produces around half of the compounded drugs it supplies. The U.S. drug distributor also said it expected to take a $60 million ...
ABA Midyear 2018: Compounding Pharmacy Fraud Defense
Legal Talk Network-17 hours ago
In this report from On The Road at at the 2018 ABA Midyear Meeting, host Laurence Colletti talks to Kevin Napper and Nina Marino, lawyers who defend compoundingpharmacies accused of prescribing unnecessary medication. They discuss what the investigation typically looks like, investing in a compliance program to
House passes stopgap measure; Senate eyeing changes
One step down, but some big ones to go. The Senate closes in on a deal that could include funding for disaster relief and to combat the opioid epidemic. But the clock ticks toward a Thursday midnightfunding deadline. READ MORE
HHS OIG found that the University of Michigan Health lacked sufficient internal controls to catching billing mistakes. The hospital is questioning the validity of the agency's results. READ MORE
Tuesday, February 6, 2018
Statement from FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D., on the agency’s scientific evidence on the presence of opioid compounds in kratom, underscoring its potential for abuse Additional adverse events associated with kratom use identified
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Monday, February 5, 2018
No change to pack sizes
Australian Journal of Pharmacy (blog)-15 hours ago
This proposal sought to create a new S3 entry for orphenadrine in “oral preparations containing 35 mg or less of orphenadrine when compounded with not more than ... occurrence of abuse episodes, OD-induced deaths, adverse cardiac events, drug-druginteractions, and incompatible pharmacokinetics with other drugs.
Arkansas on Alert for Pill Popping Pet Owners
KARK-15 hours ago
"A lot of people come in and I'll say what pharmacy do you use and they'll say you mean my pharmacy? And I'll say what other pharmacy is there?" We too were surprised to learn local pharmacies like Express RX are filling prescriptions for Fluffy and Fido. "The pet population is about 10 to 20 percent of our patients here,"
Opinion: A Reaction to DEA's Efforts to Target Pharmacies with ...
Pharmacy Times-1 minute ago
In response to “Sessions: DEA to Target Pharmacies, Prescribers in Crackdown”1 as published in The Hill, it should be obvious to responsible medical clinicians that Sessions and colleagues are naïve to the complex and biopsychosocial, medical, and pharmaceutical paradigms that are actually driving the opioid epidemic.
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