Tag: prescription drug abuse
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Licensing board needs to step up its game against pain-pill docs, Stumbo says
If the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure doesn’t increase its oversight on doctors who prescribe excessive amounts of pain pills, House Speaker Greg Stumbo said Tuesday he’ll find an agency...
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National system needed to battle pill abuse, newspaper says
Despite Georgia’s recent move to implement a system that will track prescription pill use, a national system is needed to help prevent the problem flowing “to the next crack in...
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Prescription pill problem in Kentucky, elsewhere under microscope on NPR program
The growing prescription-drug abuse problem in Kentucky and other states was under the microscope Thursday during National Public Radio‘s “On Point,” hosted by Tom Ashbrook. The Courier-Journal‘s Laura Ungar, who...
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Legislators need to help cities tackle pill abuse, mayor says
Winchester’s mayor is displeased with the Kentucky attorney general’s recent finding that local governments do not have the right to ban pain clinics within their borders. “The opinion carries no...
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Counties not allowed to ban pain clinics, attorney general says
County governments are not allowed to prevent pain-management clinics from opening within their limits, the state attorney general’s office has found. “Because such local ordinances infringe on the state’s right...
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Drug czar offers plan to cut abuse of oxycodone, related drugs
The White House drug czar announced today he wants to cut misuse of oxycodone and other opioid drugs by 15 percent in the next five years, and revealed his strategy...
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Fla. governor agrees to implement prescription drug monitoring
“Florida Gov. Rick Scott reversed course Thursday and said he will allow a prescription drug monitoring program that Kentucky officials have demanded to help block the flow of illegal prescription...
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Rogers, Florida colleague file measure to crack down on ‘pill mills’
U.S. Rep. Harold “Hal” Rogers of Eastern Kentucky’s 5th District continues to pressure the White House for more action to crack down on “crook doctors operating these pill mills,” the...
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Three Florida women put pressure on Sunshine State’s “pill mills,” legislators, governor
As Kentucky officials ask Florida legislators to crack down on pill mills, three Florida women have started a grassroots effort to spread awareness about the problem. Nurse Renee Doyle, respiratory...
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Kentucky is ‘ground zero’ in the war on drugs, Rogers says
A Kentucky congressman called “ground zero” in the war against drugs Wednesday as officials gathered in London for the regional meeting of the UNITE Coalition. In attendance was director of...