Tag: pill mills
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Medical licensure board changing rules to focus more on painkillers; fewer urine tests for patients, fewer reports for doctors
Patients in long-term treatment with controlled substances won’t have to have their urine tested for drugs unless they are on painkillers, and doctors will have wide discretion over how often...
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State officials appear to be overstating successes of new prescription-drug law, The Courier-Journal reports
There’s new criticism from Kentucky’s doctors in an analysis of the state’s four-month old prescription drug law, showing that a lot of what state officials have touted as the law’s...
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Democratic ads accuse Republicans of supporting pill mills by voting against bill that all agree needs work
A bipartisan group of Kentucky lawmakers are looking ahead to fixing the much complained about “unintended consequences” of last spring’s hastily passed bill aimed at curbing prescription drug abuse. Still,...
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Board of Medical Licensure to amend pill-mill regulations to address concerns of doctors and some patients
The Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure wants to change some of the more controversial requirements for urine screenings and digital monitoring in the state’s new prescription-drug regulations under the law...
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Governor lauds HB 1 for closing 10 of the state’s worst pain clinics, reducing the number of controlled-substance prescriptions
Gov. Steve Beshear gave credit this week to House Bill 1 for reducing the number of prescriptions written for frequently abused controlled substances and for closing the doors on 10...
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Doctor complaints about bill aimed at reducing prescription drug abuse largely based on misconceptions, health officials say
State health officials say doctors’ complaints about House Bill 1, which cracks down on pill mills and doctors who supply the illegal prescription pill trade, result from misunderstandings and misconceptions about the...
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In wake of pill-mill regulation fight, Beshear has chance to craft a medical licensing board more to his liking
Gov. Steve Beshear Gov. Steve Beshear is in a position to reshape a state medical board that has played a central and controversial role in recent efforts to crack down...
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Comprehensive series looks at new angle of prescription pain pill epidemic: addicted newborns
The Courier-Journal‘s health reporter, Laura Ungar, is again delving into the prescription pain-pill epidemic in Kentucky, this time focusing on babies who are born addicted. For any reporter interested in...
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Some doctors find law to fight pill mills confusing and overreaching, and some say they will stop writing prescriptions
Dr. Kathy Nieder, with patient charts(C-J photo by Michael Clevenger) Dr. Ralph Alvarado’s medical practice in Winchester has prescribed controlled substances to 1,800 patients in Central Kentucky over the past three...
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Legitimate pain patients having trouble getting prescription drugs because of ‘pill mill bill,’ some doctors say; hearing Wednesday
With lawmakers set to review the regulations of the “pill mill bill” Wednesday, doctors are saying some legitimate patients are having trouble getting access to prescription drugs as a result...