Industry News

• July 5, 2011
  How did Florida become ‘pill mill’ hotbed (LA Times)
  

  For the past year, federal agents say, David Kidd and Christopher Grigg traveled almost weekly from their homes in Ohio to Florida, where they — and others working for them — doctor-shopped throughout the state, buying thousands of prescription pills during each visit.

  
  

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• June 8, 2011
  American Academy of Pain Medicine Asserts That Appropriate Treatment of Chronic Pain and Prevention of Drug Over-Dose Deaths Needs to Be A Priority For Military Medicine and American Healthcare (AAPM)
  

  Several recent unintentional deaths of military personnel have drawn national attention on major news websites and Sunday morning television talk shows. While these deaths are tragic and deserve deep societal mourning and introspection, the pain experts from the American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM) urge media and government officials to rightly assess the many complexities of these deaths so that viable solutions can be put in place to save lives and help people with chronic pain.

  
  

  Tagged with: AAPM, chronic opioid therapy, military health, opioid abuse, Pain Management, pain medicine

  
  
• June 6, 2011
  Florida Gov. Rick Scott signs legislation to crack down on pill mills
  

  After initially fighting one of its key provisions, Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed a bill Friday aimed at cracking down on clinics that frivolously dispense pain pills and feed a nationwide prescription drug abuse epidemic. From the St. Petersburg Times….

  
  

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• May 25, 2011
  Senate panel tackles prescription drug abuse
  

  A senate panel heard testimony on Tuesday about prescription drug abuse in the United States, pressing witnesses on the subject, including administration officials.

  
  

  Tagged with: Drug Enforcement Agency, painkillers, Prescription Drug Monitoring, prescription drug monitoring database

  
  
• May 20, 2011
  Agents: ‘Doctor Shoppers’ Pose Risk To Community
  

  Drug enforcement agents are seeing a rise in doctor shopping, which is when a patient goes to several different doctors in an effort to get prescription drugs, in Charlotte, N.C.

  
  

  Tagged with: doctor shopping, hydrocodone, oxycodone, prescription drug monitoring database