Woman Forced Into Treatment Challenges Wisconsin Law That Allows Detention …
Woman Forced Into Treatment Challenges Wisconsin Law That Allows Detention …
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The New York Times highlights the case of Alicia Beltran, a pregnant Wisconsin woman who was locked up because she admitted to a physician's assistant that she had had been hooked on Percocet (oxycodone). Beltran had stopped using Percocet with help …
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Johnson & Johnson to pay .2 billion to end US drug probes
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The off-label marketing cost U.S. government insurance programs hundreds of millions of dollars in uncovered claims, the complaint said. Under the … Johnson & Johnson's conduct "recklessly put at risk" the health of children, dementia patients and …
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Retrophin to Fund Research Program at The Hospital for Sick Children …
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NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Retrophin, Inc. (OTCQB: RTRX) today announced that it will provide funding, over a three-year term, to The Hospital for Sick Children (“SickKids®”), Canada's largest pediatric academic health sciences center, in support of …
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With Rise Of Painkiller Abuse, A Closer Look At Heroin
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WMHT: New York Now – In-depth news from New York's Capitol … The amount of prescription painkillers sold to pharmacies, hospitals and doctors' offices quadrupled between 1999 and 2010, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention …
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