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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...

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Blood 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....

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GPs 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....

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Older 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...

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GPs 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...

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Study: 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...

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Bitter 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...

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For 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,...

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Bitter 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...

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A 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...

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AG: 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...

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Consumer 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...

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GPs 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 ...

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AG 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...

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GPs 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...

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Shouldn'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...

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U.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...

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Consumer 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...

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Phila. anti-'pill mill' legislation advances

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NHS doctor burnout putting patients at risk, BMA told

British Medical Association conference hears doctors fears for their patients and careers amid rising NHS workloads ...

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GPs vote against charging patients for appointments

Family doctors attending BMA conference express concern that backing fees proposal would lead to less equitable NHS ...

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GPs' 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 ...

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Politicians 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 ...

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A 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...

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GPs 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...

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GPs 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' ...

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GPs 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 ...

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The 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...

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DEA’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...

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New 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...

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Doctors should limit sleeping pill prescriptions, health professionals warn

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The 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...

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Doctors 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...

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Fears 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,...

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Victims 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....

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Older 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...

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NHL 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...

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Patients '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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