All the headlines from our Drugs Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 8 2017 // A northern New Mexico man is suing Walgreens over claims a pharmacist erroneously filled a prescription for him, and that anti-anxiety drug led to a suicide attempt.The Santa Fe New Mexican reported an attorney for Anthony...
Nov 8 2017 // The California Division of Workers’ Compensation has suspended 21 more medical providers from participating in California’s workers’ comp system, bringing the total number of providers suspended this year...
Nov 7 2017 // State records show that opioid overdose deaths continue to rise in Wisconsin despite fewer opioids being prescribed.Wisconsin’s Prescription Drug Monitoring Program says the state saw 17 million fewer opioid...
Nov 6 2017 // Federal authorities say five Rhode Island residents have been charged with participating in a scheme to create fake prescriptions for opioid pills and occasionally use medical insurance to pay for those prescriptions.The...
Nov 2 2017 // A husband and wife who owned an Atlanta pharmacy accused of supplying drugs to pill mill patients have been ordered to pay $5 million to state agencies that offer substance abuse treatment and victim assistance.Rosemary...
Oct 31 2017 // U.S. shareholder activists are addressing a soaring death toll from opioid drug abuse, asking companies that make and distribute the painkillers to review the risks their businesses could face from their role in the...
Oct 30 2017 // A new report shows that nearly 70 percent of federally mandated and approved California Workers’ Compensation Medicare Set-Aside settlements for injured workers require funding for decades of opioid use, often at...
Oct 30 2017 // County officials in Ohio’s Cuyahoga County are suing several large prescription drug companies saying they intentionally misled the public about the dangers of opioids.The lawsuit filed by Cuyahoga County says the...
Oct 30 2017 // A pharmacist at a facility whose tainted drugs sparked a nationwide meningitis outbreak that killed 76 people was cleared Wednesday of murder but was convicted of mail fraud and racketeering.Jurors said prosecutors failed...
Oct 30 2017 // If Aetna Inc. is eventually swallowed by CVS Health Corp., an important part of the health-care business will be changed — perhaps for good.For years, pharmacy benefits were largely carved out from the rest of a...
Oct 27 2017 // U.S. President Donald Trump declared the opioid crisis a public health emergency on Thursday, stopping short of a national emergency declaration he promised months ago that would have freed up more federal money.Responding...
Oct 27 2017 // The nation’s deepening opioid epidemic is hitting Georgia harder than most states, experts say.That’s one of the messages that came out of a recent conference at the University of Georgia. Some of the highest...
Oct 23 2017 // While the upswing in opioid abuse has leveled off, the level does not appear to be declining and remains disturbingly high, according to an analysis of national data presented at the American Society of Anesthesiologists...
Oct 19 2017 // The California Workers’ Compensation Institute this week released a report on a list of bills that will affect the workers’ comp system.The bills were recently signed into law at the end of the Legislative...
Oct 10 2017 // California Gov. Jerry Brown has signed state legislation requiring drug companies to report certain price hikes for prescription medicines in a move that could set a model for other states to follow.The law, which aims to...
Oct 3 2017 // Washington state and the city of Seattle on Thursday joined more than two dozen other government entities across the country suing to hold opioid makers accountable for an addiction crisis that has claimed thousands of...
Sep 22 2017 // At Philip Tulkoff’s food-processing plant in Baltimore, machines grind tough horseradish roots into puree. “If you put your arm in the wrong place,” the owner says, “and you’re not paying...
Sep 18 2017 // Employers expect that their average cost per-employee for health benefits will rise by 4.3 percent in 2018, which is above the average increase of 3 percent of the past five years.Early responses from Mercer’s...
Sep 18 2017 // A new study shows the prevalence of opioids in workers’ compensation claims involving mental health.The study by the California Workers’ Compensation Institute tracks changes in the prevalence, volume and...
Sep 11 2017 // New Mexico has sued eight opioid manufacturers and wholesale distributors, becoming the latest state or local government to file a lawsuit seeking to hold corporations accountable for a national drug addiction epidemic.New...