MD's Are the New Pain-Pill Crime Wave

MD's Are the New Pain-Pill Crime Wave

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Solutions are out there: improved methods to allow law enforcement to get information on miscreant doctors, mandatory training of medical staff, better labeling, tighter control of prescriptions, and making insurance coverage for drug-addiction …
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David Durk, Serpico's Ally Against Graft, Dies at 77

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He had been treated for mesothelioma for the past two years, she said. An Amherst College graduate who studied law at Columbia University, Mr. Durk joined the Police Department in 1963. He imagined a … But what he found was a culture of corruption …
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Florida's Sharrif Floyd adopted by family that gave him benefits

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"If a student-athlete is adopted, from that point forward the individual would be treated as any other parent," Osburn said in an e-mail. None. Sharrif Floyd …. They met in summer of 2009 through the Student Athlete Mentoring (S.A.M.) Foundation, a …
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AMA Wants To Stop Pharma Pay-To-Delay Tactic On Generics

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Many doctors see a lot of brand name drugs that treat most, if not all, chronic conditions like high cholesterol, hypertension, asthma and diabetes available in cheaper generic form but paying to delay generics is unnecessarily keeping certain brand …
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