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"Congress is calling on federal officials to review four large drug companies’ plans to deduct the cost of a landmark opioid settlement from their taxes, following its year-long investigation into corporate disclosures first revealed in an _...Read More_
"Congress is calling on federal officials to review four large drug companies’ plans to deduct the cost of a landmark opioid settlement from their taxes, following its year-long investigation into corporate disclosures first revealed in an _...Read More_
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>"The Supreme Court will hear from two convicted pill mill doctors in cases that could have significant implications for physicians’ latitude to prescribe addictive painkillers."
>"The Supreme Court will hear from two convicted pill mill doctors in cases that could have significant implications for physicians’ latitude to prescribe addictive painkillers."
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"The nation’s three largest drug distributors and a major pharmaceutical manufacturer announced Friday that a supermajority of states and localities had accepted the terms of their $26 billion offer to settle thousands of civil claims _...Read More_
"The nation’s three largest drug distributors and a major pharmaceutical manufacturer announced Friday that a supermajority of states and localities had accepted the terms of their $26 billion offer to settle thousands of civil claims _...Read More_
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The Guardian: US could loosen some restrictions on prescribing opioids. >"CDC considers rolling back limits on which doses can be prescribed and for _...Read More_
The Guardian: US could loosen some restrictions on prescribing opioids. >"CDC considers rolling back limits on which doses can be prescribed and for _...Read More_
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"The agency threw out previous recommended limits on doses but encouraged “nonopioid therapies” wherever possible."
"The agency threw out previous recommended limits on doses but encouraged “nonopioid therapies” wherever possible."
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>"Filing involves Johnson & Johnson and three big distributors as attorney general for eight states and DC close to deal with Purdue"
>"Filing involves Johnson & Johnson and three big distributors as attorney general for eight states and DC close to deal with Purdue"
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"Hundreds of Native American tribes that have suffered disproportionately high addiction and death rates during the opioid epidemic agreed on Tuesday to a tentative settlement of $590 million with Johnson & Johnson and the country’s _...Read More_
"Hundreds of Native American tribes that have suffered disproportionately high addiction and death rates during the opioid epidemic agreed on Tuesday to a tentative settlement of $590 million with Johnson & Johnson and the country’s _...Read More_
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>"Accidental deaths soar among young people amid a proliferation of fentanyl-filled pharmaceuticals"
>"Accidental deaths soar among young people amid a proliferation of fentanyl-filled pharmaceuticals"
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>"More than 100,000 people died from overdoses in a single year – driven primarily by one drug"
>"More than 100,000 people died from overdoses in a single year – driven primarily by one drug"
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>"Projects built upon collaboration between tech and humans—rather than those attempting to replace us with innovation—are thriving. As AI and Big Data mature in the medicine field, they are being harnessed for a new and surprising _...Read More_
>"Projects built upon collaboration between tech and humans—rather than those attempting to replace us with innovation—are thriving. As AI and Big Data mature in the medicine field, they are being harnessed for a new and surprising _...Read More_
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Community groups working to prevent overdose deaths are now paying up to 30 times more for the life-saving medication – at a time when more Americans than ever are dying from overdoses.
Community groups working to prevent overdose deaths are now paying up to 30 times more for the life-saving medication – at a time when more Americans than ever are dying from overdoses.
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"The U.S. government has twice tried to classify kratom as a controlled substance, but public outcry and pushback from Congress thwarted those efforts."
"The U.S. government has twice tried to classify kratom as a controlled substance, but public outcry and pushback from Congress thwarted those efforts."
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>"Federal drug policy needs a major overhaul, but Rahul Gupta has a record of making harmful compromises."
>"Federal drug policy needs a major overhaul, but Rahul Gupta has a record of making harmful compromises."
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A series of federal cases over the pharmaceutical industry’s push to sell narcotic painkillers which created the worst drug epidemic in US history.
A series of federal cases over the pharmaceutical industry’s push to sell narcotic painkillers which created the worst drug epidemic in US history.
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Even with the pandemic, there are still many buying drugs and overdosing on it.
Even with the pandemic, there are still many buying drugs and overdosing on it.