More awareness, research needed on abuse risk of non-opioid ...

Science Daily-6 hours ago

She has found that abusers typically mix gabapentin with opioids, marijuana, cocaine and opioid treatment medication, compounding side effects to the central nervous system that include euphoria and sedation. Some people who have primarily abused opioid pain medication have turned to gabapentin after crackdowns ...

BuzzFeed Report Identifies Secret Identity Of Missouri Execution ...

KCUR-19 hours ago

Missouri's execution drug, the sedative pentobarbital, is made by a compoundingpharmacy in a St. Louis suburb, according to a BuzzFeed report published Tuesday. The identity of the compounding pharmacy has been a state secret, despite lawsuits brought by media outlets and inmates, the latter claiming it was ...

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Report identifies previously hidden pharmacy used to supply ...

Missourinet.com-3 hours ago

The suit claimed Missouri was breaking state and federal law by using an illegal prescription to access pentobarbital from a compounding pharmacy. Attorney Justin Gelfand, who represented the plaintiffs, said at the time that the Department of Corrections was unlawfully using a copied version of the drug because its ...

ne-bought pharmacy won't give Missouri execution drugs
ABC News-14 hours ago

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Linwood man is the latest guilty plea in prescription-fraud scheme

Press of Atlantic City-13 hours ago

Nicholas Tedesco and others recruited public employees and other individuals covered by the pharmacy benefits administrator to fraudulently obtain compoundedmedications that were not medically necessary. The prescriptions were faxed to the compounding pharmacy, which filled the prescriptions and billed the .

When The Sport of Curling Should Make Your Hair Curl

By Adam Turteltaub adam.turteltaub@corporatecompliance.org In the You Can’t Make This Up Department, reports out of Korea indicate that a Russian curler has tested positive for a banned substance.  Yup, doping in curling. Doping in sports is not so surprising these days.  Doping from a Russian athlete, not so shocking either.  But doping in curling?  Really?  […] 
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Americans Invented Modern Life. Now We’re Using Opioids to Escape It.

The scale and darkness of this epidemic is a sign of a civilization in a more acute crisis than we knew.

By ANDREW SULLIVAN