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The dashboard includes quarterly updates on opioid overdose information like mortality, ED visits and hospitalization by county throughout the state. NYSDOH also developed I-Stop, a requirement for all prescription-providing health care professionals to report and track their prescriptions for controlled substance drugs, thereby stemming ...
The law (TN Code 53-11-311) that prevents nurse practitioners (NPs) or physician assistants (PAs) from prescribing more than 16 milligrams of buprenorphine-naloxone daily (despite standard dosing ...
Endo is one of the companies named in lawsuits by the states of Ohio, [42] Missouri and Mississippi [43] as responsible for the US opioid epidemic. Its 10-K statement indicates that a majority of the company's US revenue in 2016 was derived from the sale of prescription pain killers, predominantly opioids. [44]
Many significant companies are based in Nashville, Tennessee, and its surrounding communities in the Nashville metropolitan area. [1] Five of the companies, HCA Healthcare, Dollar General, Community Health Systems, Delek US Holdings, and Tractor Supply, were members of the Fortune 500 in 2020, ranking 65th, 112th, 241st, 342nd, and 380th respectively.
Drug companies, wholesalers and pharmacies have agreed to pay a total of more than $50 billion to settle lawsuits filed by state, local and Native American tribal governments and others that ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Indivior reached an $86 million settlement with 16 U.S. states over the drug manufacturer's alleged role in spreading opioid addiction across the United States, New York ...
The drug or other substance has a currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States or a currently accepted medical use with severe restrictions. Abuse of the drug or other substances may lead to severe psychological or physical dependence. The complete list of Schedule II substances is as follows.
In multiple states struggling to manage the epidemic, thousands of addicts have no access to Suboxone. There have been reports by doctors and clinics of waiting lists for the medication in Kentucky, Ohio, central New York and Vermont, among others. In one Ohio county, a clinic’s waiting list ran to more than 500 patients.