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Operation Snowball is an international alcohol, tobacco and drug-use prevention program founded in Illinois in 1977, focusing on leadership development to encourage young people to avoid taking drugs. The name originates from the idea that having a positive impact on an individual can "snowball" into positive results for an entire community and ...
National Treasury Employees Union v. Von Raab , 489 U.S. 656 (1989), was a United States Supreme Court case involving the Fourth Amendment and its implication on drug testing programs. The majority of the Court upheld the drug testing program in the United States Customs Service .
The Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS) is the department [1] [2] of the Illinois state government responsible for providing a wide variety of safety net services to Illinois residents in poverty, who are facing other economic challenges, or who have any of a variety of disabilities. As of 2006, it was the largest administrative agency ...
He, along with state Sen. David Koehler, D-Peoria, and Rep. Sharon Chung, D-Bloomington, are now urging lawmakers to take-up House Bill 4472 which would create a prescription drug affordability ...
The Illinois state government has numerous departments, but the so-called code departments provide most of the state's services. [1] [2] Code departments.
Eleven state Medicaid programs put lifetime treatment limits on how long addicts can be prescribed Suboxone, ranging between one and three years. Multiple state Medicaid programs have placed limits on how much an addict can take per dose. Such restrictions are based on the mistaken premise that addiction can be cured in a set time frame.
Prescription drug monitoring programs, or PDMPs, are an example of one initiative proposed to alleviate effects of the opioid crisis. [1] The programs are designed to restrict prescription drug abuse by limiting a patient's ability to obtain similar prescriptions from multiple providers (i.e. “doctor shopping”) and reducing diversion of controlled substances.
Funding from the state’s Medical Debt Relief Pilot Program is the first part of an effort to erase $1 billion in medical debt across Illinois. Those who qualify will begin receiving letters next ...