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Legal & Legislative Updates

• Massachusetts Finds Ways to Fight Opioid Misuse

  (March 11, 2016)

  (Spring 2016) The medical community in Massachusetts is finding new ways to fight the rise of opioid misuse in the state. Beginning with medical professionals, four schools and the Massachusetts […]

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• Rural Communities Look at Ways to Fight Opioid Abuse

  (March 11, 2016)

  (Spring 2016) U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack was appointed to spearhead a new strategy to curtail the growing rise in heroin and prescription drug abuse in rural areas of the […]

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• Marijuana in the Courts

  (March 11, 2016)

  (Spring 2016) In January, a U.S. District Judge threw out a lawsuit seeking federal approval for the establishment of a credit union to serve Colorado’s marijuana industry. Lawyers for the […]

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• Taking Big Pharma to Court

  (March 11, 2016)

  (Spring 2016) Several states are attempting to hold pharmaceutical companies responsible for drug misuse and abuse. For example, the Oregon Coalition for Responsible Use of Meds and Oregon Health and […]

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• Naloxone (Narcan) Nasal Spray Introduced

  (March 11, 2016)

  (Spring 2016) Previously available in an intravenous form only, the FDA recently approved the opioid overdose-reversal drug Narcan (naloxone hydrochloride) as a nasal spray. This is an important advancement since […]

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