OZY's Guest Walk-On: Governor Sam Brownback
And of course, the “family” — the definition of which we dug in on. Now he finds … I'm saying that inaccurately but to emphasize a point — which is [that] 60-plus percent of our inmates now have a mental illness, substance-abuse problem or both …
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Tell CMS to protect appropriate palliative care prescribing
This is a call to action to comment on CMS-4159-P. The proposed rule revises the Medicare Advantage program (Part C) regulations and prescription drug benefit program (Part D) regulations. As stated in the Executive Summary, one of the goals is to …
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Internet, drug use help fuel increases in prostitution
While police and prosecutors here blame the increases statewide and locally on Kentucky's drug abuse problem, the Internet has also changed the way those who practice the world's oldest profession do business, making it a little easier for them to find …
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Kansas Passes Law To Drug–Test Welfare and Unemployment Recipients
Brownback called drug addiction a “scourge on Kansas,” but the drug-testing regime is imprecise at best in addressing addiction. Drug tests are much more successful at detecting marijuana, which stays in the body longer, than they are at detecting more …
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Meth Addiction Cure: UCLA Tests Ibudilast On Human Addicts – Huffington Post
LOS ANGELES — The Food and Drug Administration has fast-tracked human tests of what may be the first cure for methamphetamine addiction. The drug also may be the first non-opiate drug treatment for heroin and opiate addiction. In a recent trial, UCLA …
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Brownback signs bill that requires welfare, unemployment recipients to be …
TOPEKA — Calling drug addiction a “scourge in Kansas,” Gov. Sam Brownback signed into law Tuesday a bill to test welfare and unemployment recipients suspected of using illegal drugs. “This is a horrific thing that hits so many people,” he said. “What …
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