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Highlights from the 2025 NAAG Presidential Summit

In early August, the National Association of Attorneys General, led by its 2025 President, New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella, hosted the Presidential Initiative Summit in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. General...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

DEA Tightens Buprenorphine Telemedicine Prescribing Rules

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The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) just finalized their March 2023 proposed rule regarding telemedicine prescribing of buprenorphine. The final rule, effective...more

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Supreme Court of Canada Endorses Comity in Class Proceedings in Response to the Opioid Epidemic

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A national class action on behalf of multiple Canadian governments to recover opioid epidemic healthcare costs simplifies the aggregation, prosecution, and determination of claims that span geographic boundaries. That is what...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Outlook for Action on Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Initiatives

Prompted by rising rates of overdose deaths, suicides and incidence of mental illness in at-risk populations, such as children, Congress has spent the better part of the year working in a bipartisan manner to develop and...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

An Opportunity for Bipartisan Action: Congress and the Biden-Harris Administration Respond to Growing Mental Health and Substance...

In October of 2018, Congress passed the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act (P.L. 115-271). The comprehensive opioid treatment law passed both chambers of Congress with large bipartisan support and tackled many aspects...more

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Opioid court cases offer hard evidence: Path to justice can be rocky

Patients who say they were injured by wealthy corporations must possess great fortitude as they seek justice in the civil system, as has been reaffirmed by the courts in California and Oklahoma that rejected separate cases...more

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U.S. ends confusion and expands prescribing of opioid-fighting medication

Health workers with legal prescribing privileges have gotten newly revised federal guidelines — once again — making it easier for them to help those addicted to powerful opioid painkillers by prescribing buprenorphine,...more

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Consultant to pay $573.9 million as consequence of its sketchy opioid advice

The opioid abuse and drug overdose crisis has tarred yet another of the nation’s business titans: McKinsey, a globally renowned consulting firm, has discovered that providing corporate clients sketchy advice about addictive,...more

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U.S. suit accuses Walmart of fueling deadly opioid crisis via its pharmacies

The stain of the nation’s opioid abuse and drug overdose crisis has spread now to Bentonville, Ark., as federal prosecutors have sued Walmart, accusing the nation’s largest retailer of improperly allowing its pharmacists to...more

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DEA Compliance for 2021 - How the DEA’s 2021 Proposed Aggregate Production Quotas Affect Pharmaceutical Companies and Society

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The DEA struggles to balance the pressing need to provide pain relief for those suffering from the novel coronavirus with the ongoing effort to reduce the opioid epidemic in the United States. I. Overview on the DEA and the...more

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Capitol Hill Healthcare Update - March 2020 #1

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CONGRESS SPEEDS TOWARD EMERGENCY CORONAVIRUS FUNDING PACKAGE - As novel coronavirus continues to sweep the globe, Congress and the White House are assembling a spending package with billions in emergency spending and new...more

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Changes Coming For Prescribers To The Texas Prescription Drug Monitoring Program

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In response to the opioid epidemic, many states, including Texas, created prescription drug monitoring programs to monitor high-risk patients and provider behaviors. The Texas Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (“PMP”) is...more

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Sixth Circuit Allows Appeal Of Novel Class Action Ordered In Nationwide Opiate Litigation

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Seyfarth Synopsis: In the latest development in the ultra-high stakes nationwide Prescription Opiate Litigation, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit recently granted the petition of six Ohio cities to appeal the ...more

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Why We Support Take Back Day

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The Drug Enforcement Agency’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Day is tomorrow: Saturday, October 26. This day has evolved over the years to address the growing opioid crisis, including misuse and abuse of unused...more

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ALERT: Connecticut Colleges and Universities Should Develop Opioid Antagonist Policies Now So They Can Be Approved and In Place By...

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Colleges and universities in Connecticut must comply with a new law that requires them to implement a policy regarding the availability and use of opioid antagonists by their students and employees not later than January 1,...more

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Death Certificate Project: A Dragnet!

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The Medical Board of California (“MBC”) began this project in 2013 when it required coroners to inform it of deaths resulting from opioids.  The influx of coroners’ reports triggered an intense enforcement effort by the MBC...more

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Protecting Your Company From Increased Scrutiny After Release of ARCOS Opioid Data

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In July, The Washington Post published data showing approximately 76 billion oxycodone and hydrocodone pills were purchased and sold in the Unites States from 2006 to 2012. The data came from the Automation of Reports and...more

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Connecticut Legislature Modifies Statutes Relevant to Preventing and Treating Opioid Use Disorder

On July 9, 2019, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed into law Public Act No. 19-191 “An Act Addressing Opioid Use” (PA 19-191). PA 19-191 makes various revisions to Connecticut’s opioid use prevention and treatment...more

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Another front in war on opioids: Criminal charges for Big Pharma execs, MDs

An estimated 400,000 Americans have died due to opioid drug overdoses between 1999 and 2017 — and the fatalities only are increasing. By 2025, according to expert forecasts, there will be 700,000 more opioid deaths....more

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Congress Quietly Expands Anti-Kickback Crimes

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In late October 2018, Congress passed the lengthy-named Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment for Patients and Communities Act – the “SUPPORT” Act. ...more

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Congress Takes Action to Curb the Opioid Crisis

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In a bipartisan effort to combat the opioid crisis, H.R. 6, the Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment (SUPPORT) for Patients and Communities Act (the Act), was enacted on October 24,...more

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BWC’s Opioid Workplace Safety Pilot Program has begun in Montgomery County

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On October 15, 2018, state officials and local business leaders met in Dayton, Ohio, to celebrate the launch of the Bureau of Workers’ Compensation’s Opioid Workplace Safety Pilot Program, which aims to mitigate the opioid...more

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Congress approves 650-page bill to attack opioid crisis, as doubts abound

Congress has approved a major new push to deal with the opioid crisis that kills tens of thousands of Americans annually. Voters can expect President Trump to sign the big bill, passed easily and with rare bipartisan support...more

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Facing Addiction In The Workplace: The Surgeon General’s Spotlight

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Seyfarth Synopsis: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of the Surgeon General, has just released a Report on “Facing Addiction in America: The Surgeon General’s Spotlight on Opioids,” (Washington,...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

House and Senate Opioid Packages Comparison

The opioid epidemic has driven significant legislation this session. To help our readers track the pending opioid legislation, ML Strategies has created a chart to analyze various provisions of House and Senate bills and...more

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