“We’ve won the battle but not the war,” victim’s father said In 2019, Brandon McDowell was contacted by a...
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UT: ‘Compounded’ weight-loss drugs are a growing problem for state regulators
/ California, Idaho, Kansas, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, USA, Utah, West VirginiaCompounding pharmacies are allowed to make a medication that’s essentially a copy of a commercially available drug if its...
CA: New law requiring California bars to offer drink spiking drug test kits takes effect July 1
/ California, USAA new law requiring many California bars and nightclubs to offer common date-rape drug test kits will take effect Tuesday, according...
CA: Advances Bipartisan Legislation to Reduce Overdose Deaths by Providing Essential Protections for Drug Checking Services
/ California, USAThe California Assembly Public Safety committee passed AB 2136 (Jones Sawyer), a bill that will curb overdose deaths by...
Reported by Pain Medicine News. Originally published by our sister publication Specialty Pharmacy Continuum A bill that would require...
NACCHO Awards $350,000 in New Overdose Response Project Funding
/ California, Illinois, Louisiana, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, USA, VermontNACCHO Awards $350,000 in New Overdose Response Project Funding: Awardees in California, Illinois, Louisiana, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina,...
CA: Doctors are as vulnerable to addiction as anyone: California grapples with a response
/ California, USAAs addiction and overdose deaths command headlines across the nation, the Medical Board of California, which licenses MDs, is...
CA: California Assemblymember Akilah Weber, M.D. Announces Legislation Banning the Sale of “Gas Station Heroin”
/ California, USAOn Wednesday, Assemblymember Akilah Weber, M.D. (D-La Mesa) announced her intention to introduce a bill to ban the sale...
US: The Legal Status of Safe Consumption Sites
/ California, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, USAAs the opioid crisis continues to ravage the United States, nonprofits, city and state governments have turned to untraditional...
A bill that became a California law in 2024 makes it illegal for an employer to “discriminate against a person… if...
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Southwestern Pennsylvania counties are making sure overdose prevention drugs are everywhere
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January 23, 2025West Virginia Department of Human Services Continues Progress in Reducing Overdose Deaths
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