Alcohol may be the oldest. New ones are being invented every day. There are thousands, and keeping track of what they are and what they do isn’t easy.
It appears that the presence of other drugs in the fentanyl and heroin currently flooding our streets has made naloxone, the opioid antagonist that is our primary weapon against OD fatalities, far less likely to be effective.
Marketed as supplements, they’re excused from having to inform us. And they don’t.
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A DC lobbyist…filed a suit claiming that John Boehner and an associated law firm had stolen his idea, and the plans for implementing it, without giving him credit (or paying him)
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One thing that emerged is that Walgreen’s own pharmacists had made repeated attempts to convince corporate leadership to establish a central database of suspicious purchases, and the customers who made them.
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The Company’s actions relating to the marketing and promotion of these important prescription pain medications were appropriate and responsible. Today the Oklahoma State Supreme Court appropriately and categorically rejected the misguided and unprecedented expansion of the public nuisance law as a means to regulate the manufacture, marketing, and sale of products, including the Company’s prescription opioid medications.”
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…there were some real doozies, scripts written for amounts way beyond any conceivable patient need.
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The Gold Rush atmosphere is because everyone is expecting the arrival of bigger, better-funded, publicly-traded cannabis companies, accompanied by their networks of retail stores.
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By the time the authorities get around to questioning it, you’ll have collected more than enough revenue to pay your legal fees.
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Although fentanyl overdoses are attracting the bulk of the public’s attention, any counselor or healthcare professional will tell you that opioids are only part of what we think of as ‘the drug problem’.
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…in its first two years (of the revised drug abuse policy), no MLB player has come up positive for opioids.
If you work in addictions, you might find that hard to swallow.
A functioning pill mill can be extraordinarily lucrative for those who own or operate them. The profits go untaxed, remember.
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In COVID terms, it’s as contagious as omicron, as fatal as delta. And targeted at the young, making use of their favorite platforms.
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Juries are less interested in subtle legal distinctions than a judge can be.
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