Warning: The Growing Danger of Prescription Drug Diversion – The start time for the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade hearing scheduled for 8:00 am on Thursday, April 14, 2011, in 2123 Rayburn House Office Building has been changed. The hearing will now begin at 8:00 am The hearing is entitled “Warning: The Growing Danger of Prescription Drug Diversion.”

 

NY leaders negotiate prescribed drugs restrictions

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That would require the state Department of Health to establish a computer reporting system where doctors and other care providers would have to review a patient's complete prescription drug history online before writing new scrips for painkillers.
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Ky. governor wants national painkiller tracking

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Steve Beshear told a drug summit Tuesday that the 50 states need to link their prescription drug monitoring programs if the nation is going crack down on pill mills and painkiller abuse. Beshear told 700 people at the National Rx Drug Abuse Summit in …
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Prescription drug bill facing opposition from MDs

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Stumbo cited research that suggests doctors are prescribing high doses of painkillers that are being abused by addicts, many of whom are dying from overdoses. In Kentucky, more people die from drug overdoses than car wrecks, forcing lawmakers to take a …
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