Senator Pushes Bill to Regulate Pain Clinics

Senator pushes bill to regulate pain clinics

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But Grooms, who has been a pharmacist for almost 40 years, said the state needs to restrict prescriptions that might only be used to mask pain and maintain addiction. SB 246 would require that each patient has a medical treatment plan that “avoids long …
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Records: Dolan paid some problem priests to leave

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The Food and Drug Administration says it will detain shipments of pomegranate seeds from a Turkish company when offered for import because of a multistate outbreak of hepatitis A illnesses linked to a frozen-food… The Food and Drug Administration …
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Providers Urge Use of Suboxone for Patients with Co-Occuring Pain, Addiction

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… referrals, kind of as a last resort,” said Ed Blackburn, executive director of Central City Concern, the social services agency that runs the Old Town Clinic, which sees exclusively low-income patients, many of them uninsured or on the Oregon …
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Drinking epidemic among America's women: Number of females being

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When it comes to a woman's ability to effortlessly be the life of the party, Her Best-Kept Secret, as the book is titled, may be her drinking problem instead of her housewife and hostess tricks. … They're being charged more often with drunk driving …
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