New York to use GPS-fitted bottles to track stolen pain pills
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York police will begin asking city pharmacies to stock decoy bottles fitted with GPS devices among powerful painkillers like Oxycontin and oxycodone in the latest bid to combat...
View ArticleBlood tests urged for young Arkansas dental patients
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Arkansas health officials on Tuesday recommended blood tests for about 100 young patients of a dentist who sedated them with drugs possibly contaminated with infectious material....
View ArticleGPs dole out 25% more 'happy pills' in just three years
NHS figures reveal that 53million were issued last year – a record high – compared with just 42.8million in 2010, and 20.1million in 1999....
View ArticleOlder people could get hooked on insomnia drugs because GPs don't review...
(Source: Barchester Healthcare Limited) Older people could get hooked on insomnia drugs because GPs don't review often enough Older people who suffer with insomnia could get hooked on drugs because...
View ArticleGPs say no to charging patients
Calls to charge patients for GP visits in the UK have been rejected by family doctors. The issue was debated at the British Medical Association's annual GP conference in York. Delegates voted against...
View ArticleStudy: Addicted docs put patients in trouble - Many people don't blow whistle...
Your doctor could be drunk, addicted to drugs or outright incompetent, but other physicians may not blow the whistle. To imagine that other people in the hospital know that there is a problem is...
View ArticleBitter Pill: Stunning jump in oxycodone prescriptions -- even among children
Prescriptions for the powerful painkiller oxycodone have spiked by nearly 30 percent over the last three years in the Bay State as other opiates drop — a trend experts are calling a frightening red...
View ArticleFor Many Patients, Delirium Is A Surprising Side Effect Of Being In The Hospital
When B. Paul Turpin was admitted to a Tennessee hospital in January, the biggest concern was whether the 69-year-old endocrinologist would survive. But as he battled a life-threatening infection,...
View ArticleBitter Pill: Prescription rate for oxycodone soars
Prescriptions for the powerful painkiller oxycodone have spiked by nearly 30 percent over the last three years in the Bay State as other opiates drop — a trend experts are calling a frightening red...
View ArticleA Win-Lose Situation: New Data Shows Prescription Painkiller Deaths Decreased...
Dr. Michael Lowenstein Facebook Twitter Pinterest × Dr. Michael Lowenstein ORANGE, Calif., Oct. 28, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- New data suggests the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency's crackdown on Hydrocodone...
View ArticleAG: Hyannis doc ran dangerous ‘pill mill’
A Hyannis doctor charged with doling out powerful painkillers to recovering addicts and trying to cover his tracks in paperwork once specialized in treating sick children, but later transformed his...
View ArticleConsumer Watchdog Praises Committee Passage of Bill that Requires Physicians...
(Source: Consumer Watchdog) Santa Monica, CA -- Consumer Watchdog today applauded a California Legislature committee for passing a bill that requires prescribers to check a state database before...
View ArticleGPs used as 'soft target' for NHS problems
Chair of Royal College of GPs hits out at politicians including health secretary Jeremy Hunt for unfairly blaming GPs for NHS failures ...
View ArticleAG Maura Healey: Hyannis doc charged for running pill mill
A Hyannis doctor has agreed to shut down his practice and now faces criminal charges from Attorney General Maura Healey, who said he doled out powerful and addictive painkillers to patients with...
View ArticleGPs take on extra role for frailest patients
The 100,000 most frail patients in England will be identified and given a named GP to coordinate their care. The move has been agreed by the British Medical Association and NHS England in talks over...
View ArticleShouldn't Doctors Have To Pee In A Cup Too?
Pilots, college athletes, bus drivers and Disneyland cast members all are subjected to mandatory drug testing, but not the doctor performing open heart surgery, or a vasectomy. Not yet. Substance abuse...
View ArticleU.S. Senate Health Committee Hearing Today: "More Than 1,000 Preventable...
SANTA MONICA, Calif., July 17, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Senate committee on Health Education Labor and Pensions holds a hearing today to investigate patient safety and the estimated...
View ArticleConsumer Watchdog Praises Passage of Bill that Requires Physicians Check...
SANTA MONICA, Calif., April 27, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Consumer Watchdog today applauded a California Legislature committee for passing a bill that requires prescribers to check a state...
View ArticlePhila. anti-'pill mill' legislation advances
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View ArticleNHS doctor burnout putting patients at risk, BMA told
British Medical Association conference hears doctors fears for their patients and careers amid rising NHS workloads ...
View ArticleGPs vote against charging patients for appointments
Family doctors attending BMA conference express concern that backing fees proposal would lead to less equitable NHS ...
View ArticleGPs' leader looks to end out-of-hours care row
Dr Clare Gerada, chair of the Royal College of GPs, wants family doctors to take back responsibility for key groups of patients ...
View ArticlePoliticians alienating GPs with 'relentless' attacks, senior doctor claims
Dr Chaand Nagpaul accuses MPs of belittling family doctors, causing some young doctors to shun becoming GPs ...
View ArticleA substitute for heroin, but many end up getting hooked
Methadone is used to treat people who have an addiction to heroin - but it can often lead to the person becoming reliant on it instead of going clean. It's a synthetically-created opiate that is used...
View ArticleGPs urge patients to oppose cuts
GP bosses are mounting a hard-hitting poster campaign and calling on patients to back demands for the Government to reverse swingeing funding cuts for general practice which they say have left services...
View ArticleGPs to vote on charging patients for appointments
Health campaigners criticise plan to deter patients from failing to turn up to surgeries as 'profiteering from the most vulnerable' ...
View ArticleGPs threaten to quit commissioning to concentrate on patients
Doctors' leader says GPs finding it increasingly difficult to reconcile sharply rising workload with new managerial duties ...
View ArticleThe Elderly Are Taking Too Many Pills
It's a pretty simple formula to follow: As people rise in years, so rises the likelihood that they will be prescribed a pill for what ails them. It's the end results that are so disturbing: Those aged...
View ArticleDEA’s Painkiller Crackdown Too Little, Too Late?
The DEA’s newest regulations target hydrocodone, an ingredient in America’s most prescribed drug: Vicodin. Will the crackdown help our country’s opiate addiction? There is a kind of comfort in an...
View ArticleNew push for doctors to accept responsibility for state's pain pill problem
He thought he was doing everything right, but it turned out Dr. Robert Turner was wrong. He was so wrong, in fact, that the State Medical Board suspended the Columbus orthopedist’s medical license for...
View ArticleThe Problem With Pain Pills
By TARA PARKER-POPE In the new e-book “A World of Hurt: Fixing Pain Medicine’s Biggest Mistake,” the New York Times reporter Barry Meier explores the murky world of prescription pain medicine. He makes...
View ArticleDoctors prescribe narcotics too often for pain, CDC chief says
The nation's top public health official on Tuesday sharply criticized the widespread treatment of aches and pains with narcotics, saying that doctors are prescribing such drugs too soon, too often and...
View ArticleFears of addiction keep cancer patients from getting pain relief
By Randi Belisomo NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Fears of opioid abuse and addiction might be keeping patients with advanced cancer from getting enough pain medicine, researchers say. “At the end of life,...
View ArticleVictims scammed GPs for pills, inquest told
Between them, they stockpiled thousands of prescription drug tablets, duped dozens of doctors and succumbed to addictions despite pleas from their families....
View ArticleOlder Americans hooked on Rx: 'I was a zombie'
When Betty Van Amburgh began treatment last year for her addiction to prescription painkillers, she was told to bring along all her medication. She arrived with a shopping bag boxes of transdermal...
View ArticleNHL player's death shows how easily patients can get addictive pain pills
MINNEAPOLIS - Three years before he died of a drug overdose, Derek Boogaard was punched in the mouth during a fight at a Minnesota Wild game. And broke a tooth. Within days, Boogaard, the Wild's...
View ArticlePatients 'get hooked as GPs dole out too many happy pills'
Family doctors are doling out powerful sedatives too freely and for too long – fuelling a growing addiction problem among patients according to the annual conference of the British Medical Association....
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