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21 Dec 2021, 7:32 am
While most people may think of drug crimes as involving “hard drugs” like heroin, cocaine, or methamphetamines, more and more of these cases are related to prescription opioids. [read post]
7 Jul 2017, 2:51 pm by ... ...
This epidemic starts at the doctor’s office, but it will end, one case at a time, in a courtroom. [read post]
19 Mar 2018, 7:10 am by Michael B. Stack
When we compare the effect of longer-term opioid prescriptions with no opioid prescriptions, the effect is to triple the duration of temporary disability benefits. [read post]
11 Mar 2018, 4:56 pm by Lebowitz & Mzhen
Not surprisingly, given the number of prescriptions filled each year, there are a significant number of pharmacy errors involving opioids. [read post]
15 Apr 2014, 10:30 am by Lebowitz & Mzhen
It is recommended for family members and caregivers of people using opioid painkillers in case of overdose. [read post]
1 May 2019, 3:19 pm by Jon L. Gelman
Recently authors of the Centers for Disease Control guidelines for opioid prescriptions have stated that those guidelines have been misused to arbitrarily limit opioid prescriptions for pain management.As a practical matter, in my experience prescriptions for opioids are already severely limited for injured workers. [read post]
3 Feb 2020, 7:32 am by Benjamin Beaton
Several chain drug stores that filled opioid prescriptions have filed a mandamus petition challenging Judge Polster’s order to produce “transactional dispensing data for the entire United States” from 2006 forward. [read post]
24 Oct 2017, 9:30 pm by Benjamin Barsky
A new war on drugs is taking place—and this time, it is being waged against prescription opioid abuse. [read post]
19 Nov 2021, 7:44 am by Patrick A. Malone
Patients who say they were injured by wealthy corporations must possess great fortitude as they seek justice in the civil system, as has been reaffirmed by the courts in California and Oklahoma that rejected   separate cases involving the harms of prescription painkillers. [read post]
2 Mar 2018, 6:03 am by Brenda Fulmer
” “Increased prescription of opioid medications led to widespread misuse of both prescription and non-prescription opioids before it became clear that these medications could indeed be highly addictive. [read post]
2 Mar 2018, 6:03 am by Brenda Fulmer
” “Increased prescription of opioid medications led to widespread misuse of both prescription and non-prescription opioids before it became clear that these medications could indeed be highly addictive. [read post]
19 Apr 2019, 11:14 am by Stephanie Sundier
” Many of these prescriptions targeted vulnerable patients or known opioid addicts. [read post]
However, opioid litigation plaintiffs prevailed in several smaller cases in which courts found that pharmacies were liable. [read post]
2 Jun 2019, 7:13 am by James Hoffmann
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, in 2017 there were 952 cases of overdose death involving opioids in Missouri, leading to a 16.5 rate per 100,000 persons. [read post]
18 Jun 2013, 3:42 am by Jon Gelman
Paulozzi noted 42% of workers with back injuries had opioid prescriptions in the first year after the injury, most of them after their first medical visit, but 16% of those workers were still receiving opioids a year after the injury. [read post]
17 Apr 2017, 6:00 am by Kit Case
Massachusetts) in tackling the issue of opioids in the workers’ compensation cases by creating a Workers’ Compensation Opioid Task Force. [read post]
12 Aug 2013, 7:21 am by Senior Editor
    Prescription Monitoring & Nurse Case Managers Can Combat Problem   When doctors do cut off the flow of opioids prescriptions to injured employees, the addicted employee often will find a reason to no longer accept the judgment of the doctor and will request a different doctor. [read post]