An MD takes on the DEA
Still, "pill mills" do continue to exist, if not in the numbers they once did. I suppose they could stage a comeback -- the economics still work.
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Bongs for Sale, Cheap
…the goal, as one official described it, is to “discourage unlicensed cannabis activities and to help level the playing field for legitimate businesses paying their taxes.”
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The Oregon Trials
Measure 110 was a classic example of a syndrome that’s plagued innovative social programs since the 1960’s and 70’s.
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Presidential Pill Mill?
I know something about how healthcare professionals are trained to manage medications, and this isn’t it.
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Odds & Ends
…they may have purchased what they believe to be cocaine, or methamphetamine, or heroin, any or all of which may have been ‘cut’ with fentanyl or another uber-potent synthetic opioid, in sufficient quantity to overcome their tolerance and put them in imminent danger of death.
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Back in Court — Pill Mill edition
A lone physician was found to have prescribed more than 500,000 doses of prescription opioids to assorted patients in little more than two years of medical practice.
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Fatal for These Fans
In the absence of much factual information, wild theories have proliferated.
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Another Try at a Cannabis Test
If the current versions of the saliva test hold up to regular use throughout the year long trial, it’s likely state government will make their use permanent.
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Trouble, Spanish-style
There has been speculation that something about people from the UK makes them especially vulnerable to agranulocytosis.
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Predicting CUD’s Impact on Treatment
…it’s more likely to be those with five or six or more symptoms — the “high-moderate” to severe cases, in DSM parlance – who eventually seek treatment.
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Two Ketamine Fatalities
“During our training, we were told numerous times that this is a safe, effective drug,” one of the two testified.
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A Congressman’s Crusade
You’d have to be blind not to see the potential for serious problems, especially when you’re talking about high school and college-age students.
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Sacklers Meet Supremes
After all, though P-P folded, and billions were lost, in the end the owners managed to get away with the bulk of their fortune, and ultimately to avoid the most serious consequences of their actions.
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