Montana seeks marketing injunction against OxyContin maker

The Spokesman-Review-20 hours ago

OxyContin pills are arranged Feb. 19, 2013, for a photo at a pharmacy in Montpelier, Vt. The state of Montana is seeking a preliminary injunction to prevent the maker of the powerful painkiller OxyContin from marketing opioids to Montana prescribers, seeking to put the force of a court order behind Purdue Pharma's recent ...

OxyContin maker stopped in its tracks
Pharmacy News-20 hours ago

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It will take everyone if we're going to have an impact on the opioid ...

Price Sun Advocate-20 hours ago

“I believe it,” Ferguson quipped. “I never wanted to go to his pharmacy.” The response garnered laughter from the crowd, but emphasizes an important point. Some doctors prescribe far more opioids than others. Some pharmacists just fill prescriptions because a doctor wrote it. That's just fueling the epidemic, Ferguson said.

Patients, doctors struggle with new law aimed at reducing overdoses

KLAS-TV-12 hours ago

A lot feel shame, feel like they're being treated like a criminal at the pharmacy," Dr. Laird said. Some patients complain the crackdown has led to pharmacy overreach with some skipping the full amount of pills or refusing to supply them at all. "They start wondering when I go today is it going to be the good pharmacist or the ..

Houston Pharmacy Owners Deny $23M Health Fraud

Houston Pharmacy Owners Deny $23M Health Fraud

Law360-17 hours ago

Law360 (February 21, 2018, 8:25 PM EST) -- The Houston owners of Piney Point Pharmacy pled not guilty Wednesday to federal charges of money ... of Labor for compound gels and creams that were given out through illegal, kickback-induced prescriptions via the Houston pharmacy the two owned and operated.... To view ...

Express Scripts Beats NY Pharmacy's Antitrust, Contract Suit

Law360-18 hours ago

Law360 (February 21, 2018, 7:51 PM EST) -- A Missouri federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a New York pharmacy's antitrust and breach of contract suit accusing Express Scripts Inc. of baiting it into a mail-order contract only to drop the deal months later, finding the relationship between the two was limited to ...