New York City to Restrict Prescription Painkillers in Public Hospitals …
New York City to Restrict Prescription Painkillers in Public Hospitals …
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The restrictions, they said, could deprive doctors in the public hospital system — whose mission it is to treat poor people — of the flexibility that they need to respond to patients. “Here is my problem with legislative medicine,” … But he said …
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Ky. gets chance to pursue Oxycontin case
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The Kentucky Attorney General's Office won a court ruling pushing a lawsuit against Purdue Pharma back from federal court to Pike County, which is in the heart of the Appalachian region where drug abuse is rampant and where the litigation originated …
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School reform, student safety, prescription drug abuse targets of legislative …
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The General Assembly will also continue to work on the state's prescription drug epidemic and the continuing spread of methamphetamine abuse, which has worked its way from rural areas to metropolitan centers. "The drug problem costs the state so much …
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