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Opioid Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Prescription Drugs

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California’s Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board Votes on Naloxone Requirement

On June 20, 2024, the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board partially adopted Petition 602—a proposal to require employers to provide opioid overdose reversal medications (e.g., naloxone) at all worksites...more

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Alston & Bird Health Care Week in Review - April 2022 #2

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Below is Alston & Bird’s Health Care Week in Review, which provides a synopsis of the latest news in health care regulations, notices, and guidance; federal legislation and congressional committee action; reports, studies,...more

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CDC Updates Guidance on Opioid Prescriptions

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In a shift from prior policy, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) proposed on February 22, 2022, new guidelines for prescribing opioid painkillers. The new guidance largely avoids figures on dosage strength...more

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Experts still tussle with proper prescribing of opioid painkillers

As the opioid abuse and drug overdose crisis rages, experts - after decades now of experience with powerful painkillers - continue to struggle with their proper handling and prescribing. The federal Centers for Disease...more

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Washington Healthcare Update - August 2021

This week in Washington: Senate agrees on infrastructure compromise, budget resolution with reconciliation instructions to be voted on....more

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Deadline Looms for Responding to DEA’s Proposed Aggregate Production Quotas for 2021

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On Tuesday, September 1, 2020, the Drug Enforcement Agency (“DEA”) proposed 2021 aggregate production quotas (APQs) for controlled substances in schedules I and II of the Controlled Substances Act (“CSA”) and an Assessment of...more

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EEOC issues guidance on opioids and the Americans with Disabilities Act

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It is no secret that America is in the midst of an opioid addiction crisis. It has been for quite awhile. A recent study revealed that in 2018 there were 128 deaths from opioid overdose per day in United States. A startling...more

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Drug maker to pay $1.6 billion to settle claims over its big role in opioids crisis

The civil justice system has scored a win in curtailing what once was a major maker of much abused and lethal prescription painkillers: Mallinckrodt, a global drug making giant, has agreed to send its opioids-making generics...more

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Johnson & Johnson Ordered to Pay $572 Million in Opioid Litigation

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For years, the number of people becoming addicted to opioid-based pharmaceuticals has rapidly increased. People who are chronic users of opioid drugs can experience severe side effects and are at a greater risk of overdose...more

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Capitol Hill Healthcare Update

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LAWMAKERS COOL TO TRUMP PLAN ON HHS, GOVERNMENT REORGANIZATION - The response from lawmakers on Capitol Hill to the White House plan to reorganize the federal government – including proposed changes to multiple healthcare...more

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Capitol Hill Healthcare Update

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HOUSE OKs DOZENS OF OPIOID-RELATED BILLS; MORE VOTES SCHEDULED - The House last week approved 38 bills that lawmakers hope will stem the opioid epidemic, and it scheduled votes this week on at least a dozen more....more

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K&L Gates Triage: The Opioid Epidemic: Laws Impacting Prescribers and Care Givers

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This is the first episode in a series focused on the legal issues surrounding the nationwide opioid crisis. To begin the series, Carla DewBerry discusses the laws and regulations impacting health care providers caring for...more

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Trump Administration Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 Budget and Healthcare Programs

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The Trump Administration on Feb. 12 released its Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 budget request, titled "An American Budget." Unlike last year's budget, which was released in late May, the release of this budget conforms to the typical...more

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Big Pharma firm, under fire in drug abuse epidemic, scales back opioid’s hype

Purdue Pharma, which built a multi-billion-dollar family empire, in part, by overcoming doctors’ resistance to prescribing powerful painkillers like its own powerhouse OxyContin, has decided to curb its quarter-century of...more

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The Opioid Epidemic: Are We Headed Toward a Tipping Point?

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Health care law and policy occupy a prime place in the current news cycle. Much of the attention revolves around the actions or inactions of Congress and the White House, particularly with regard to their impact on the future...more

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Opioid Epidemic Declared a National Emergency; Proposed Law Calls for Mandatory E-Prescribing of Controlled Substances to Curb...

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Today, in a move that is widely supported by those in both political parties and across the country, President Trump declared the opioid epidemic a national emergency. Doing so will allow for additional resources to be used...more

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A&B Healthcare Week in Review

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I. REGULATIONS, NOTICES, & GUIDANCE - On March 24, 2016, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a guidance entitled, “Draft Guidance for Industry: General Principles for Evaluating the Abuse Deterrence of Generic...more

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