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Ohio Injured Workers Fund Battling Painkillers

Nearly a third of the prescriptions the state’s insurance fund for injured workers paid for last year were for powerful narcotics, part of a 37 percent increase in the use of such drugs — mainly addictive painkillers — the agency …

Senate Panel to Probe Ties Between Painkill Drugmakers, Medical Nonprofits

A U.S. Senate panel has launched a probe of possible links between three drugmakers and nonprofit medical groups that advocated for increasing the use of prescription painkillers, now the target of a nationwide law enforcement crackdown. Senate Finance Committee Chairman …

Doctor in Ohio Pill Mill Case Sentenced to Life in Prison

A doctor convicted in the overdose deaths of four patients and implicated in eight more deaths faces has been sentenced to in federal court in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Feb. 14 to four life terms in prison, the U.S. Drug Enforcement …