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Missouri launches prescription drug database to spot opioid addictions
WDAF via Yahoo News· 5 months agoJEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri on Wednesday launched a statewide database of opioid prescriptions...
Do pharmacies have too much power?
The Week via Yahoo News· 12 months agoPharmacy and prescription Illustrated/Getty Images Pharmacies can control what prescriptions they fulfill and which medications they stock, in some cases...
Traveling nurse convicted in Wichita Falls had been fired at Arkansas hospital over drugs
Times Record News via Yahoo News· 7 months agoA Henrietta nurse was barred from working in Arkansas because of misdeeds ranging from failing a...
Evansville teen accused of causing multiple fentanyl overdoses
The Courier & Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoEVANSVILLE — Police arrested an Evansville teenager Wednesday who stands accused of selling counterfeit prescription pills that caused three overdoses, one of which killed a 19-year-old woman ...
Nashville metro had second-highest rate of overdose deaths in the U.S. in 2022, report says
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 8 months agoSeven hundred and fifty four people died by drug overdose in the Nashville area last year, a number that makes Davidson County the second-deadliest major metro in the country. Fentanyl was linked ...
Can 4 common medications — Viagra, estrogen, a statin and an OTC painkiller — help you live longer?...
Yahoo Life· 1 month agoCan certain medications help you live longer? Here are some findings from new research. (Getty...
U.S. opioid crackdown hits some patients' access to psychiatric drugs
Reuters via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA crackdown by U.S. drug wholesalers in response to the opioid crisis is preventing some pharmacists...
Overdose epidemic hits home for Gaston family
The Gaston Gazette via Yahoo News· 2 years agoJennifer Messer lived with a drug problem, says her father. It ended up killing her. Jennifer Messer died Feb. 5, 2022, from a heroin overdose at age 36....
Ozempic, Wellbutrin, and Hundreds of Other Drugs Just Got More Expensive
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 4 months agoAnother year, another round of inscrutable price increases for many prescription drugs. Over 700...
Judge tosses charges related to 2012 'pill mill' raids in Operation Pill Street Blues
TCPalm | Treasure Coast Newspapers via Yahoo News· 3 months agoA dozen years after Vero Beach became the epicenter of a statewide probe dubbed Operation Pill...
