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Senate rejects bill on prescription monitoring program
Amid opposition from the pharmaceutical industry, state senators Tuesday failed to pass a bill that would have significantly enhanced a prescription monitoring program aimed at curbing drug abuse and overdose deaths. Under the proposed legislation,...Tags: General Practitioners, Prescription Drugs, Epidemics and Plagues, Mark DeSaulnier, Kamala D. Harris
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FDA allows sales of generic Opana painkiller to continue
Federal regulators said Friday that they would continue to allow sales of generic Opana, a narcotic painkiller similar to OxyContin, even though the pills are prone to abuse. Like OxyContin, Opana is an extended-release narcotic designed to offer pain...Tags: Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Prescription Drugs, New Products, Pain, Food and Drug Administration
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Generic version of narcotic Opana still for sale despite concerns
Federal regulators said Friday they would continue to allow sales of generic Opana, a narcotic painkiller similar to OxyContin, even though the pills are prone to abuse. Like OxyContin, Opana is an extended-release narcotic designed to offer pain...Tags: Prescription Drugs, Pain, Food and Drug Administration, Drugs and Medicines
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Illinois Senate approves bill to legalize medical marijuana
Illinois has come within a signature of becoming the 19th state to allow marijuana use for medical purposes. On Friday, the state Senate voted 35-21 to approve a medical marijuana measure, which now will head for Gov. Pat Quinn’s desk. The...
Tags: National Government, Prescription Drugs, Government, Regional Authority, Health Treatments
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Tribeca 2013: 'The Rocket,' 'Kill Team' among fest's top winners
NEW YORK -- A scripted feature about life in Laos and documentaries about U.S. war crimes and a town in the grip of a debilitating drug addiction were among the big winners at the Tribeca Film Festival's jury prizes Thursday night. "The Rocket," the...
Tags: John Slattery, Justice System, Movies, Berlin International Film Festival, Arts and Culture
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Smoking and the right to dumb choices
As thoroughly awful as everyone knows cigarettes to be — still the No. 1 cause of premature death in this country — public officials walk a blurry line when they try to reduce smoking's terrible toll. As long as they lack the will to ban...
Tags: Michael Bloomberg, Marketing, Advertising, Tobacco Products, New York City Council
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Abuse-resistant OxyContin will be only version available: FDA
Three years after it approved a version of the opioid analgesic OxyContin designed to discourage the painkiller's abuse, the Food and Drug Administration has effectively barred the original form of the drug from ever reaching the legal U.S. market. The...
Tags: Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Heroin, Pharmaceuticals, Pain, Medical Research
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Death of Scott Sterling, son of Clippers owner, ruled accidental
Scott Sterling, the 32-year-old son of Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling, died as a result of a pulmonary embolism and "narcotic medication intake" in what Los Angeles County coroner's officials classified as an accidental death, authorities...
Tags: Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Diabetes, Donald Sterling, Los Angeles International Airport, Pharmaceuticals
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Alleged O.C. drug dealer charged with murder in overdose death
An alleged Mission Viejo drug dealer is scheduled to be arraigned Friday on a charge of murder in the death of a 21-year-old woman by providing her with a lethal dose of drugs and then refusing to take her to the hospital after she lost consciousness....Tags: Alprazolam (drug), Crime, Law and Justice, Methadone (drug), Drug Trafficking, Lawyers
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San Bernardino County physician's assistant sentenced
A San Bernardino County physician’s assistant who pleaded guilty to illegally distributing a widely abused painkiller was sentenced Tuesday to 14 years in federal prison. Christopher Henry Lister, 51, of Victorville ran a mobile health clinic...Tags: General Practitioners, Trials, Court Preliminary, Punishment
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Drug overdose prevention could be right at our fingertips
What do you think is the leading cause of accidental death in California? If you said car accidents, you were wrong. In 2009, the most recent year for which statistics are available, 3,200 people in the state died in automobile crashes, while 3,561...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, General Practitioners, Tom Ammiano, Hydrocodone (drug), Disasters and Accidents
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Doctor to plead guilty to selling prescriptions at coffeehouses
An Orange County doctor has agreed to serve at least eight years in federal prison for illegally selling prescriptions for powerful painkillers and other drugs out of Starbucks coffeehouses, according to court records. Alvin Ming-Czech Yee, 44, of...
Tags: Alprazolam (drug), Crime, Law and Justice, Trials, Starbucks Corp., Prisons
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