Bill Introduced to Promote Abuse-Deterrent Painkillers

Published March 17, 2013

Bill introduced to promote abuse-deterrent painkillers

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Hal Rogers (R-KY) and William Keating (D-MA), would require opioid-based prescription drugs to include abuse-deterrent technologies that prevent substance abusers from crushing or dissolving prescription opioids so that they cannot be inhaled or …
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BC-MA—Massachusetts News Digest, MA

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BOSTON — A justice of the state's highest court has agreed to ask the full court to decide two cases in which prosecutors are challenging how lower courts handle thousands of drug convictions jeopardized by what they say was a chemist's misconduct …
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Marijuana ban overruled; moratoriums OK

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Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley has ruled that towns can hold off on allowing medical marijuana treatment centers but cannot forbid them altogether. In two decisions released Wednesday, Coakley upheld a temporary moratorium on the …
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