Focus on Opioids May be Curbing Prescriptions December 30, 2016 By RICH LORD, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Pennsylvania’s avalanche of opioids that rolled from factories through pharmacies to medicine cabinets, and then tumbled into the streets with...
California Governor Signs Bill Targeting ‘Doctor-Shopping’ for Opioids September 30, 2016 California doctors will be required to check a database of prescription narcotics before writing scripts for addictive drugs under legislation...
Pro-Painkiller Echo Chamber Shaped Policy Amid Drug Epidemic September 22, 2016 By MATTHEW PERRONE and BEN WIEDER, Associated Press and Center for Public Integrity For more than a decade, members of a little-known group called the Pain Care Forum have blanketed Washington with messages...
Ohio Man Sentenced for Doctor, Pharmacy Shopping December 6, 2011 An Ohio man who used deception to obtain narcotic prescriptions was sentenced this week in a Franklin County courtroom. Thomas...