MORE ON: prescription pain killers

Daily Report: Health and Welfare

Patient advocates, drugmakers fight ‘fail-first’ policies

July 18, 2012, 12:05 AM
Cynthia Toussaint is a passionate advocate for pain patients and the face of a small nonprofit – For Grace – that is sponsoring a bill in the California Legislature that would limit health insurers' ability to steer patients to low-cost or generic medicines before approving stronger... + read more
Daily Report: Health and Welfare

State cuts prescription drug monitoring amid spike in pain pill deaths

November 9, 2011, 12:05 AM
While federal authorities are calling the spike in prescription painkiller deaths an epidemic, California is dismantling a system that the White House identifies as a promising method to tackle the problem. The CURES prescription drug monitoring program enables doctors to track people who shop... + read more
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