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Legal & Legislative Updates

• Drug Wholesalers Neglect to Flag Suspect Opioid Orders, Pay Millions in Settlement

  (June 23, 2017)

  (Summer 2017) Charged with claims that they did not submit questionable orders for opioids to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), two large drug wholesalers have agreed to pay millions of […]

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• Senate Expands Unemployment Drug Screening

  (June 23, 2017)

  (Summer 2017) In March, the Senate struck down the prior administration’s mandate that restricted the scope of drug testing that states could require of those receiving unemployment benefits. This overturns […]

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• Workers Compensation Programs Strive to Lower Opioid Rx Rates

  (June 23, 2017)

  (Summer 2017) The liberal prescribing of opioid painkillers by some health care practitioners is a contributing factor to the country’s opioid epidemic. Attempting to curb this practice, state workers’ compensation […]

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• Creative Law Enforcement Focuses on Treatment

  (June 23, 2017)

  (Summer 2017) Unfortunately, drug overdose fatalities continue to rise across our nation. Over 60% of these deaths are opioid-related. In fact, more than 91 Americans perish each day from an […]

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• Federal Government Appointees Poised to Take on Drug Crisis

  (June 23, 2017)

  (Summer 2017) With a new president in the Oval Office, changes are taking place with the nation’s war on drugs. House Representative and early Trump supporter, Tom Marino, is in […]

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