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Legal & Legislative Updates

• Americans, Canadians Spend Billions on Legal Marijuana – in One Year

  (March 17, 2017)

  (Spring 2017) North Americans’ consumption of legal marijuana goods skyrocketed over 30% from 2015 to 2016; all told spending $7 billion on cannabis commodities. Specifically, U.S. and Canadian residents purchased […]

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• NY County Goes After Big Pharma

  (December 16, 2016)

  (Winter 2016) Suffolk County, New York is bringing suit against 11 pharmaceutical manufacturers, including Purdue Pharma and Johnson & Johnson, charging that these companies drove the country’s now-widespread opioid crisis. […]

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• Insurance Companies Slack on Parity Act

  (December 16, 2016)

  (Winter 2016) A presidential task force has highlighted the fact that some insurance companies are not doing a good job of upholding the mandates of 2008’s Mental Health Parity and […]

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• NH “Safe Station” Offers Hope for Opioid Addiction

  (December 16, 2016)

  (Winter 2016) As the federal government works to combat the opioid crisis, administrators on the community level are also taking action. Much like the ANGEL program we’ve reported on in […]

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• Doctors could be Doing More with Buprenorphine

  (December 16, 2016)

  (Winter 2016) Recent research reveals that a majority of doctors approved to prescribe buprenorphine, a medication used to counter opioid addiction, are seeing well below their capacity of these patients. […]

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