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FDA Reiterates Its Concerns on Risks Associated with Kratom
The FDA announced the voluntary destruction and recall of large volumes of kratom-containing dietary supplements manufactured and…
Pharmacy Wholesalers Allegedly Sent over 12 Million Opioid Doses to a Single West Virginia Pharmacy
West Virginia has been hit hard by the opioid crisis and data shows the death rate from…
DEA Helps Distributors Avoid Oversupplying Opioids
The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) continues to work with its over 1.7 million registrants to combat the…
Buprenorphine: Prescribing by Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants
Pharmacists are uniquely positioned to assist in medication assisted treatment programs and need to be aware of…
New Nebraska Law Requires All Prescription Drugs to be Reported to PDMP
On January 1, 2018, Nebraska became the first state to require all dispensers to report all prescription…
Rural Colorado County Sues Top Pharmaceutical Companies and Distributors over Opioid Crisis
Huerfano County, a rural southern Colorado county, filed suit in federal court against the nation’s top pharmaceutical…
New York Pharmacists Allowed to Give Flu Shots to Children After Executive Order
Flu season typically runs from October through May with peaks seen in February. However, flu cases nationwide…
North Carolina STOP Act Looks to Address the Opioid Crisis
North Carolina’s Strengthen Opioid Misuse Prevention Act (STOP Act) sets limits on certain ‘targeted controlled substance” prescriptions…
Patient Choice of Pharmacy Bill Introduced in the Colorado Legislature
House Bill 18-1097 (HB 1097), also referred to as the Patient Choice of Pharmacy, is a bipartisan…
FDA’s 2018 Priorities for Drug Compounding
After the fungal meningitis outbreak of 2012 that killed 76 patients and injured hundreds more, Congress passed…