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Arkansas AG sues pharmacy benefit managers, claiming unjust enrichment from opioids
Arkansas Advocate via Yahoo News· 9 hours agoArkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin filed a lawsuit Monday against two pharmacy benefit managers...
La. Highway Safety Commission distributes pharmacy bags across state
KNOE Monroe LA· 8 hours agoThe Louisiana Highway Safety Commission is making residents aware of the risks while driving if...
Cost may not keep many people from filling opioid addiction treatment prescriptions
Medical Xpress· 6 days agoWhen people get a prescription for the opioid addiction medication called buprenorphine, they almost...
Washington sees steep rise, then slow down in prescriptions to treat opioid addiction
The Columbian· 5 days agoWashington’s medical professionals nearly tripled the state’s prescribing rate of buprenorphine, an...
Kentucky nurse took money for prescriptions without seeing patients
Lexington Herald-Leader via Yahoo News· 6 days agoParman also authorized prescriptions for amphetamine/dextroamphetamine, a drug to treat attention...
Maine doctor convicted on multiple counts of illegally distributing opioids
ABC News· 3 days agoA Maine doctor who runs an addiction treatment center has been convicted on multiple counts of illegally distributing opioids including oxycodone, hydromorphone and fentanyl ...
‘Crooked Smile’ Review: When Trouble Leaves a Mark
The Wall Street Journal· 2 days agoIt is sobering to be confronted with the horrors of addiction, of course. But the most compelling aspects of “Crooked Smile” (now we know where the...
Run clubs are having a moment. This one is for people in recovery.
Philly.com· 5 days agoWhen Kellen Matthews heard a doctor at his addiction rehab program say that running can give you a...
Commentary: Here are solutions for Baltimore overdose crisis
The Baltimore Banner· 6 days agoA health commissioner, Peter Beilenson, who had identified barriers to drug treatment by posing as a...
Opinion: Surgeons give patients too many opioids. A few simple steps could curb excess prescribing
Los Angeles Times· 7 days agoAmerica’s opioid epidemic is as bad as it has ever been. Although the sharp increase in opioid...