Posts Tagged ‘ State & Local ’

Prescription Drug Use an Issue for Employers

Two decades after the Supreme Court first upheld the right to test for drugs in the workplace, Dura’s concern — that employees on certain medications posed a safety hazard — is echoing across the country.


 

Over-the-counter medicines becoming drug of choice for teens

If you had to guess, how many old bottles of prescription medication are sitting in your medicine cabinet right now? When was the last time you cleaned out that cabinet?


 

DEA, UGA team up to fight prescription drug abuse

Drug enforcement officials in Georgia are teaming up with the University of Georgia to fight prescription drug abuse


 

South Carolina considers link to prescription database to fight abuse

South Carolina is being asked to link its prescription drug-tracking database to similar databases in other states, to help prevent prescription drug abuse.


 

Take-Back Event Collects 5 Tons of Unwanted Drugs

- Colorado Attorney General John Suthers announced that local law enforcement and the Drug Enforcement Agency collected nearly five tons of drugs as part of a take-back event in September.


 

Orange County Cracking Down on Pill Mills

Over 130 people died of drug overdoses in Orange County last year — 100 of those from prescription medication.


 

Board of Medicine Disciplines Doctor for Pain Pill Prescribing

As a new law cracking down on pain clinics took effect Friday, a parade of doctors came before the Florida Board of Medicine for wrongly prescribing the powerful painkillers that kill an average of seven residents a day.


 

In rural counties, prescription pill abuse rampant

“It’s devastating in a rural community,” Smith said. “We’re losing a whole generation to OxyContin. It’s scary.”


 

State law makes changes for pain clinics

Pain clinics now have to meet certain criteria to receive a permit and must register with the state, and have a medical director who is board certified in pain management and holds a Florida medical license.


 

Prescription Drug Abuse Program Started in N.J. Goes Nationwide

A prescription drug collection program that got its start in New Jersey last year is going nationwide this year to include more than 2,700 sites in all 50 states, a spokesman for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration said.


 

Campaign to Cut Down on Prescription Drug Abuse

The Montana Attorney General is launching a campaign to stop abuse of prescription drugs.


 

State must tread lightly in regulating pain control

First, do no harm. That Hippocratic maxim should be kept in mind as state government inserts itself more deeply in doctors’ decisions to treat chronic pain.


 

States Struggle to Slow Prescription Drug Abuse

In the past decade, prescription drug abuse has soared to new levels. A recent White House study found a 400 percent increase in abuse from 1998 to 2008.


 

3 Utah County Men Sentenced in Illegal Online Pharmacy Case

The three were part of an initial indictment in October 2008 against a total of 18 people for involvement in the distribution of prescription medications from Mexico through Internet pharmacy businesses.


 

How Doctors Can Outsmart Addicts

Doctors now have access to a powerful electronic database to combat prescription drug fraud — and one Island physician says he’s already used it weed out bogus patients seeking painkillers.


 

America’s Most Medicated State? West Virginia

Open the medicine cabinet in anyone’s home, and chances are good you find at least a couple — and perhaps many — plastic prescription drug bottles.


 

State OK’s tool to detect prescription drug abuse

With a few computer keystrokes, Massachusetts physicians will soon be able to identify patients who travel from clinic to clinic in pursuit of potent prescription drugs that feed lethal addictions.


 

Feds: Tampa Bay Area Tops in State for ‘Pill Mills’

The Tampa Bay area has supplanted South Florida as the epicenter of a statewide cottage industry that dispenses prescriptions and pills in bunches, according to a federal agency that inspects pain-management clinics.


 

Woman Arrested On Doctor Shopping Charges

Deputies in Charlotte County arrested a woman on 11 felony counts of “doctor shopping.”


 

Website Fights Prescription Drug Abuse

Pharmacists, doctors and law enforcement personnel have a powerful internet search tool at their disposal that is being used in greater numbers to combat prescription drug abuse.


 

 
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