U.S. JUSTICE DEPARTMENT FILES SUIT AGAINST WALMART FOR FUELING OPIOID CRISIS IN THE COUNTRY

Highlights

• “Walmart’s pharmacies violated the law by filling thousands of prescriptions for controlled substances that Walmart's pharmacists knew were invalid” said the Justice Department

• The company has always empowered our pharmacists to r...

WALMART SUES U.S. GOVERNMENT TO SETTLE PHARMACIES' ROLE IN OPIOID CRISIS

Highlights

• Walmart in the suit says that the U.S. Justice Department and Drug Enforcement Administration has been making them a scapegoat to divert attention from the agencies' failures to handle the opioids crisis in the country

• Walmart's lawyers said Wa...

HOW TO TACKLE OPIOID AND ITS SIDE EFFECTS?

Recent surveys showed that there has been an increase of 9% of drug related deaths. Opioid is one of the drugs responsible for the same. It is responsible for the death of almost 50,000 Americans. The number of deaths is growing.

However, opioid is known to be a powerful painkiller but ...

Toxic pleasure-seeking

In my more than 50 years of clinical training, several people who needed assistance met me. Some had serious molecular source disorders that could be treated with medications. Others had serious problems with their lives which did not respond to treatment. In reality, other people were not sad bu...

Immense research in pharmaceuticals is causing resources to go to waste. Time to put an end to it!

Although in medicine there is a lot to celebrate, we have too much. Too many studies, prescriptions, medications, and treatments waste resources, which could be used more efficiently to meet real needs.

For example, antidepressants can save some people their lives. Yet studies funded by...

Qatar- QU work is developing new methods to accelerate the discovery of drugs

A research conducted by a faculty member of Qatar University's College of Medicine (CMED) in collaboration with researchers from the University of Montreal, Canada, and scientists from Pfizer Inc, an American multinational pharmaceutical company, has facilitated the development of a new appro...

Incarceration is not an effective social policy

Dr Kimberly Sue is the Harm Reduction Coalition's medical director, a national advocacy group working to change U.S. policies and attitudes about drug users ' treatment. She is also a trained anthropologist from Harvard and a doctor in New York's Rikers Island jail system.

A...

Missouri might have a drug issue to cater

Drugs have been the prime focus of the news these days as they have been killing people more than diseases and bullets have been killing, the most tragic and the hyped event of this was when last month a woman along with her kids was killed in an ambush between the drug cartels, and this is somet...

Brain implants to fight against drug addiction in the US

In the first trial of its kind, brain implants are being used for patients suffering with opioid addiction in the US. Allegedly the implants are helping to reduce the cravings. Furthermore, the lead doctor, Ali Rezai adds that the device works as a “pacemaker for the brain.”

Opioid hurting the medical industry

The medicine industry of the United States has been popular as well as controversial, and in the past few days, there have been major changes to the medical world as the nation is now importing drugs from various parts of the world as the nation is hit with a drug shortage.

The misuse o...

Suboxone Plays a Leading Role in opioids policy.

In this week’s $260 million settlement between drug firms and 2 Ohio counties hit exhausting by the opioid crisis, $25 million price of the addiction medication called Suboxone may be a massive a part of the deal.

Suboxone would frame a far larger share of a projected national set...

S&P five hundred Climbs on the far side three,000 on Trade;Bonds Fall: Markets Wrap

U.S. stocks advanced amid positive signs on trade talks and as investors anticipated earnings from a number of the world’s biggest corporations. Treasuries fell.

The S&P five hundred Index climbed to a one-month high, surpassing the three,000 level, LED by energy and mone...

Use of Opioids for treatment more or drug abuse?

As the United States has a huge healthcare system the number of patients in the country is also huge there is an abundance of drugs that causes overdoses by the patients and is a huge cause for a substantial number of people dying from the cause.
The use of opioids as medications in modera...

Purdue Pharma filed for bankruptcy

US based drug maker Purdue Pharma has urged for a bankruptcy protection. The latest development is regarded as a consequence to the thousands of lawsuits which have accused the firm for fostering US opioid crisis. Based on the latest reports, the company’s board has approved the filing of Chapter...