by Rick Bunker | Dec 27, 2016 | Featured News
Dublin-based healthcare giant Cardinal Health on Friday agreed to pay $44 million to settle multiple lawsuits regarding the distribution of various controlled substances. Cardinal Health admitted that it failed to report large orders for powerful painkillers like...
by Rick Bunker | Dec 22, 2016 | Featured News
2016’s Top 5 Advances in Primary Care Opioid crisis and what to do about it tops list MedPage Today asked specialists in primary care around the country to tell us what they thought were the most important clinical developments in 2016. These were the five most...
by Rick Bunker | Dec 19, 2016 | Featured News
The Staggering Costs, Monetary and Otherwise, of Substance Abuse A new report from the Surgeon General says the country spends $442 billion a year in dealing with drug and alcohol abuse. There are so many issues dividing America right now. But there is a terrible...
by Rick Bunker | Dec 17, 2016 | Featured News
Increases in Drug and Opioid-Involved Overdose Deaths — United States, 2010–2015 The U.S. opioid epidemic is continuing, and drug overdose deaths nearly tripled during 1999–2014. Among 47,055 drug overdose deaths that occurred in 2014 in the United States, 28,647...
by Rick Bunker | Dec 16, 2016 | Featured News
More states urged to mandate physician use of prescription drug monitoring databases As the number of drug overdose deaths linked to prescription painkillers continues to rise, experts are calling on more states to set mandates requiring prescribers to check state...
