Day One – California Joint Prescribing and Dispensing Forum – February 21, 2013 Part 1


 

Day One – California Joint Prescribing and Dispensing Forum – February 21, 2013 Part 1 – A joint forum by the California Board of Pharmacy and the Medical Board of California to promote appropriate prescribing and dispensing and prevent prescript…

 

Gov. Brown's bluster on prisons [Blowback]

Filed under: Drug Abuse California

He hasn't even advocated for moving nonviolent second strikers, facing up to six years in prison for possession of heroin or cocaine for their own use, to drug treatment or local jails. California's investment in prisons, local jails, probation and …
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Virgin, Novartis, Qualcomm, Dotcom: Intellectual Property

Filed under: Drug Abuse California

Novartis (HCBA) AG sued Intas Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (INTAS) for patent infringement, claiming it sought U.S. approval to sell a generic version of the immunosuppressant drug Myfortic before Novartis's patents expired. Novartis, in a filing July 3 in …
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Mercury News editorial: California must comply with court order on overcrowded

Filed under: Drug Abuse California

… care facilities, and last year it implemented Brown's realignment plan: reducing prison populations by keeping lesser offenders in county facilities or on parole and, theoretically at least, strengthening drug abuse and other programs to cut down …
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Filed under: Drug Abuse California

“I took my first drink when I was 13,” said Todd Crandell, an addictions counsellor and founder of Sylvania's Racing for Recovery — a fitness-promotion programme designed to battle substance abuse (racingforrecovery.com). After that first drink …
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