The buzz came mostly by word-of-mouth but also from flyers circulated among New Jersey’s homeless Medicaid recipients and drug addicts. It told them where to get pain pills – and fast – prescribed by corrupt doctors who then bilked government …
Kentucky officials will start a yearlong study next month to determine the effects of controversial new laws designed to curb prescription pill abuse. The Courier-Journal reports the Cabinet for Health and Family Services has contracted with the University of Kentucky …
Nearly 70 percent of Americans are on at least one prescription drug, and more than half take two, Mayo Clinic researchers say. Antibiotics, antidepressants and painkilling opioids are most commonly prescribed, their study found. Twenty percent of patients are on …
Changes to the state’s workers’ compensation system will be the focus of the Tennessee Workers’ Compensation Educational Conference this week. The three-day conference begins on Wednesday at the Nashville Airport Marriot. The conference includes specific sessions on getting ahead of …
Kentucky is making progress in curbing an epidemic of prescription drug abuse, Attorney General Jack Conway told political leaders from across the nation Tuesday. Conway briefed the National Governor’s Association Policy Academy on Reducing Prescription Drug Abuse about Kentucky’s efforts, …
The Texas Department of Public Safety has launched an online program to track prescribed painkillers and other controlled substances in a bid to fight a rising prescription drug problem. DPS spokeswoman Katherine Cesinger says Prescription Access in Texas is designed …
Claims Departments on Guard as Prescription Drug Abuse Reaches Epidemic Levels Of the 2.1 billion prescriptions the American Medical Association estimates are written annually, nearly 25 percent of those were used by approximately 52 million Americans for something other than …
Claims Departments on Guard as Prescription Drug Abuse Reaches Epidemic Levels Of the 2.1 billion prescriptions the American Medical Association estimates are written annually, nearly 25 percent of those were used by approximately 52 million Americans for something other than …
Express Scripts, Inc. has established a comprehensive fraud, waste and abuse (FWA) detection program for workers’ compensation payers, which can help stem the rising costs associated with the widespread abuse of prescription narcotics. The new Express Scripts program offers a …