New state pain-medication law has doctors and patients nervous

New state pain-medication law has doctors and patients nervous
Lawmakers, seeking to curb prescription-drug overdoses, fast-tracked a bill to make it harder to write prescriptions for large doses of opiate painkillers. Now, as state regulators attempt to write the rules that doctors and other providers must follow, critics predict that making prescribing more difficult won’t stem overdoses but will hurt patients with serious chronic pain.
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Not So Great Eight: History of Florida Marlins’ First Round Draft Disasters
While the majority of the Florida Marlins’ first round draft disasters were before the Jeffrey Loria/Larry Beinfest/David Samson era and their pair of World Series victories (1997 and 2003) make no mistake the Marlins could have been a great team out of the gates. They had only one winning season between 1993 and 2002 which yielded the one World Series.
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Recovering from a Painkiller Addiction
Painkiller abusers sometimes crush and snort pills or inject them after diluting with water.  It gives them the same high as heroin and can kill them.  The body can’t handle time-released drugs like oxycontin injested all at once. Addicts who choose to kick their habit usually come to places similar to the River Edge Behavioral Health Clinic, to detox before treatment.  The time it takes to …
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