Tag: opioid
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States try to get opioid overdose drug to extra folks
Posing as buyers, a group of researchers from the College of Mississippi known as practically 600 pharmacies throughout the state and requested a easy, yes-or-no query: “Do you may have naloxone that I can choose up as we speak?” Mississippi enacted a legislation authorizing pharmacists to promote the opioid overdose reversal drug naloxone — typically…
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Opioid settlement payouts to localities made public for first time
Hundreds of native governments nationwide are receiving settlement cash from corporations that made, offered, or distributed opioid painkillers, like Johnson & Johnson, AmerisourceBergen, and Walmart. The businesses are shelling out greater than $50 billion complete in settlements from nationwide lawsuits. However discovering out the exact quantity every metropolis or county is receiving has been almost…
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Legislature votes to repeal Alaska legislation together with veterinarians in opioid monitoring
The Alaska Legislature has reversed a seven-year-old legislation that requires veterinarians to take part within the state’s prescription drug monitoring program. The state Senate voted 19-0 on Friday to approve the repeal measure, Home Invoice 56. The Home beforehand voted 35-1 to approve the invoice, which now returns to the chamber for a procedural vote…