New Database to Stop Prescription Drug Abuse Takes Effect

Published August 31, 2013

New Database To Stop Prescription Drug Abuse Takes Effect
BUFFALO – A major provision of a state law to prevent prescription drug abuse takes effect Tuesday, creating an online database designed to keep people from obtaining prescriptions from multiple doctors at the same time. The Prescription Monitoring …
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New York State Law Aimed At Ending Prescription Drug Abuse Takes Effect
visit CBS New York's. NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – A key provision took effect in New York state Tuesday to help crack down on prescription drug abuse. New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman was in Staten Island touting the Internet System for …
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Legislators question Medicaid's effect on drug abuse
Ohio's growing heroin and prescription drug problem has collided with the biggest issue facing the state legislature this fall: Whether to expand Medicaid health care benefits to hundreds of thousand of low-income residents. The Medicaid debate is set …
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