Tag: prescription drugs
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Docs must stop over-prescribing pain pills, summit speakers say
When a statistic showed the number of opioid prescriptions increased from 76 million in 1991 to 219 million in 2011, Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug...
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Troubling statistics discussed at prescription-drug summit
Staggering statistics were revealed this week at the Orlando-based National Rx Drug Abuse Summit, including one survey that found 2 million people age 12 and older started using prescription pain...
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Beshear tells national audience legislature should pass pill-mill bill
Today, Gov. Steve Beshear again called on legislators to pass a bill Thursday that would crack down on so-called pill mills and thus curb prescription drug abuse. Speaking at the...
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Pain-pill problem has spread to new areas from Appalachia
Sales of hydrocodone (the key ingredient of Vicodin, Norco and Lortab) and oxycodone (the main ingredient in OxyContin, Percocet and Percodan) skyrocketed in new parts of the country as the...
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In bipartisan way, political leaders push passage of ‘pill mill’ bill
A bipartisan group of political leaders issued a call today “to pass a bill that will help the state battle one of its most significant threats – prescription drug abuse,”...
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Need for painkillers and social support, shortage of treatment programs, feeds prescription drug abuse in Appalachian Ky.
By Ivy Brashear Kentucky Health News Taking opioids is still the best way to treat patients with pain, but the drugs are addictive because they do more than just alleviate...
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Meds-for-meth, pain-pill bills each clear a second chamber; both probably headed to conference committee(s)
“State lawmakers gave new life Wednesday to two bills designed to tackle Kentucky’s problems with methamphetamine labs and prescription drug abuse,” John Cheves and Jack Brammer report for the Lexington...
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Senate panel OKs pill-mill bill with provision moving prescription-monitoring system to attorney general’s office
Over the objections of the Kentucky Medical Association, a Senate committee today approved a bill that would “transfer oversight of the state’s prescription-monitoring system from the Cabinet for Health and...
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Board suspends license of doctor at raided Lexington pain clinic
DEA agent enters building housing clinic (Herald-Leader photo by Charles Bertram) Read more here: http://www.kentucky.com/2012/02/16/2071374/board-suspends-medical-license.html#storylink=cpy The Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure imposed an emergency suspension yesterday on the license of the...