How Medical Community Can Overcome Error of Its Ways in Opioids and Vaping: Opinion September 24, 2019 By Faye Flam When the medical community makes mistakes, it’s like shooting down a few hundred airplanes every year. That’s a dramatic metaphor...
New Great American Endorsement Covers Use of Drug to Prevent Opioid Overdoses August 11, 2016 Great American Insurance Group has launched a professional liability endorsement to cover the administration of Naloxone, a drug that counteracts...
Kentucky Doctor Gets 100 Months for Over-Prescribing Pain Pills May 16, 2016 A former doctor with offices in Louisville, Ky., and southern Indiana has been sentenced to 100 months in prison for...
West Virginia Doctor Gets 8 Years in Drug, Health Care Fraud Case April 29, 2016 A pain clinic doctor in Beckley, West Virginia, has been sentenced to eight years in federal prison for illegally prescribing...
Will Mandating Doctors Use Prescriber Databases Aid the Fight Against Opioid Deaths? April 12, 2016 By John Tozzi The U.S. is in the midst of an opioid crisis. Deaths from prescription painkiller overdoses have quadrupled since 1999. To...