Prescription Drug Abuse Workgroup Formed in Senate Health Committee

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With more than 16,000 lives lost each year due to opioid-related overdoses, the Senate Committee on Health Education Labor and Pensions (HELP) is establishing a working group to address the national prescription drug abuse epidemic. The bipartisan HELP Committee Prescription Drug Working Group will meet to discuss the challenges of prescription drug abuse, and what […]

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Bill Requiring Coverage of Partial Refills to Support Medication Synchronization Efforts Introduced in Missouri

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Aimed to promote patient care, a Missouri bill would require that health benefit plans reimburse when pharmacies dispense less than a 30-day supply for the purpose of synchronizing a patient’s chronic medications. If passed, the bill (HR 2145) would apply to plans providing prescription drug coverage and would also require reimbursement when “the prescriber or […]

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US Attorney General Urges Increase in Accessibility of Naloxone

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US Attorney General Eric Holder called the rise in overdose deaths from prescription painkillers and heroin an “urgent public health crisis” and advocated for increased access to and training for the overdose-reversal drug, naloxone, for first responders and law enforcement agencies in a video message on the Department of Justice website. “The transition to – […]

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Best Practice Guidelines for Making Prescription Labels Accessible to Visually Impaired Individuals Now Available

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Best practice guidelines and the results of a working group study about how to make prescription information more accessible to those who are visually impaired are available on the website of the US Access Board. The guidelines, “Best Practices for Making Prescription Drug Container Label Information Accessible to Persons Who are Blind or Visually-Impaired or […]

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West Virginia Considering Legislation to Make PSE Prescription-Only

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Aimed to reduce the illegal manufacture and abuse of methamphetamine, a bill that would make pseudoephedrine (PSE) medications available by prescription only has passed the West Virginia Senate. Senate Bill 6 (PDF) would prohibit the sale, transfer, or dispensing of PSE without a prescription, with the exception of drug products that the West Virginia Board […]

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FDA Requests that Health Care Providers and Regulators Encourage Outsourcing Facility Registration

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Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Margaret Hamburg has encouraged entities that purchase compounded sterile drugs to meet the medical needs of patients that cannot be met by FDA-approved products to consider requiring their providers to register as outsourcing facilities with FDA. In addition to sending letters to these entities, Hamburg sent additional letters to state […]

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