The Illinois General Assembly has passed a bill requiring pharmacy firms to provide numerical locking device for bottles containing prescribed painkillers, to avoid abuse by children. The bill will be tested in a one-year pilot from ...
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LEXINGTON, Ky., Feb. 22 (UPI) -- Kentucky heroin overdose deaths and emergency department visits increased from 2011 to 2012, while prescription painkiller overdoses dropped, officials say. A report by the Kentucky Injury Prevention and ...
MONDAY Feb. 3, 2014, 2014 -- Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, 46, died Sunday from an apparent drug overdose. Hoffman was found in a Greenwich Village apartment by a friend who went to check on the actor because he was unable to reach him, ...
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End Discrimination Now issued a highly critical statement regarding the new prescription drugs laws approved this week by the NYS Senate. Characterizing the “new” law as “alarmist”, “excessive” and ...