Monday, April 30, 2018

Compounding Law Five Years Later | P&T Community

https://www.ptcommunity.com/journal/article/full/.../compounding-law-five-years-late...
13 hours ago - These traditional compounding pharmacies sell directly to physicians, dentists, and veterinarians, who pass along the drugs to patients. Sometimes patients buy the drugs from the pharmacy and bring them to the physicians for infusion or injection.

Thursday, April 26, 2018

Ark. lawmaker introduces bill to crack down on opioid trafficking

THV11.com KTHV-12 hours ago
WASHINGTON – Representative French Hill (R-AR) introduced the Ending the Fentanyl Crisis Act. The bill is designed to fight the opioid epidemic by strengthening penalties for fentanyl distribution and trafficking and providing additiona

Senate Opioid Bill Brings Regs in Line with HIPAA Privacy Rule

HealthITSecurity.com-10 hours ago
The provision, known as Jessie's Law, would make it easier for healthcare providers to get information about a patient's history of opioid and other substance abuse to improve treatment of addicts. ... Several healthcare associations lobbied the Senate panel to include Jessie's Law in the comprehensive opioid treatment bill.

Charlevoix County joins opioid lawsuit

Petoskey News-Review-8 hours ago
Then as a natural defense the pharmaceutical companies are going to name, or attempt to name, the doctors as co-defendants in this, and at some point in time we are going to end up with doctors in Charlevoix County that are now part of this ... an unintended consequence of us seeking some reparations (for the opioid .

Prosecutor on Justice's opioid crackdown favors tough tact

Alabama Today-15 hours ago
“We need to use tough prosecutions if we are going to get our way out of this epidemic,” said Daly, a longtime federal drug prosecutor recently tapped to oversee the Justice Department's ambitious efforts to attack America's opioid abuse crisis. “We don't ignore the need for prevention and treatment efforts, but the notion that ..