(Originally aired: February 5, 2023) President Richard Nixon officially declared the War on Drugs in 1971. Trillions of tax dollars later, by nearly every account, that war has failed. A record amount of the opioid fentanyl is crossing in through […]
CDC revised its “Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain” on November 4. Physicians writing in Medpage respond with the following critical commentary: Before the CDC suffered a loss of trust over its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, the
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The following is an excerpt from Independent via Yahoo! News. America’s top three pharmacy chains have been ordered to cough up $650.5m to Ohio counties Lake and Trumbull for fueling the opioid epidemic after oversupplying the drug. CVS, Walmart and Walgreens will have to pay a third of
