Tag: prescription drugs
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States can’t reveal drug costs because federal law makes them secret; Montana governor blames drug lobby, Ky. contractor
When Montana journalists asked Gov. Brian Schweitzer to reveal the prices the state pays for drugs in government health care programs, he said he wanted to tell them, but had...
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Ky. officials ramp up criticism of plan to cancel Florida drug monitoring; U.S. drug czar says Fla. governor may lack facts
Kentucky officials continue to rail against Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s proposal to cancel his state’s prescription-drug monitoring program, a move they argue would keep the pipeline open for Kentucky dealers who...
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Three Ky. physicians and one nurse practitioner investigated for high numbers of prescriptions for antipsychotic drugs
State and federal officials are investigating three Kentucky doctors and one nurse practitioner because of the unusually high amounts of antipsychotic drug prescriptions they write for Medicaid patients. In 2008...
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Drug czar coming to Kentucky to look at prescription pill abuse
The White House drug czar will visit Kentucky next week to investigate prescription pill abuse, a problem he called “heartbreaking.” In a four-day tour, Gil Kerlikowske, President Obama’s chief advisor...
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C-J examines effect of prescription drug abuse on Ky. children
The Courier-Journal continued today its series “Prescription for Tragedy,” an in-depth look at the effects of prescription drug abuse across the state. For today’s installment, reporters Emily Hagedorn and Laura...
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Skyrocketing prescription drug abuse is subject for examination by Kentucky’s two biggest newspapers
The uphill battle against prescription drug abuse across the state was extensively explored in Kentucky’s two largest newspapers this weekend. In their series titled “Prescription for Tragedy,” which continues today, The...
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Rural teens more likely to abuse prescription meds; Operation UNITE launches ‘Accidental Dealer’ to guard medicine cabinets
A University of Kentucky study has shown rural teenagers in Kentucky are 26 percent more likely to abuse prescription drugs than those living in urban areas, the Lexington Herald-Leader‘s Mary...
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Florida is slow to close valves on ‘pill pipeline’
The “pill pipeline” from Florida to Central Appalachia and other regions has not been closed despite the passage of laws in Florida to tighten controls on prescription painkillers, Bill Estep...