Drug shortages continue; hospitals cope

AUG 10, 2014 Drug shortages continue to occur in the United States. The number of drugs in short supply or completely unavailable may have gone down, but that number is still high. Worse, the types of products in short supply are as important as drugs used to fight...

AUGUST 2014 NEWSLETTER

                  A federal report credits Florida’s crackdown on pill mills and doctor shoppers with reducing deaths from prescription-drug overdoses by nearly one quarter. The report from the Centers for Diseases Control...

Harder-to-abuse oxycodone painkiller approved

By: Mark Lowery, Content Editor July 25, 2014 FDA has approved a new oxycodone painkiller that’s designed to be more difficult for drug abusers to exploit. Targiniq ER (Purdue Pharma) is an extended-release tablet that combines oxycodone, the active ingredient...

Pill-mill crackdown cut Florida’s overdose deaths

DRUGTOPICS.COM JULY 02, 2014 By: Mark Lowery, Content Editor   A federal report credits Florida’s crackdown on pill mills and doctor shoppers with reducing deaths from prescription-drug overdoses by nearly one quarter. The report from the Centers for Disease...