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Prescribing Red Flags and Suspicious Controlled Substance Orders: Current Cautionary Tales

FDA Law

The government asserted additional allegations that are outside our scope. 12, 2012). “[W]hen the circumstances surrounding the presentation of a prescription would give rise to suspicion in a ‘reasonable professional,’ there is a duty to question the prescription.” On October 10th, based on ability to pay, the U.S. 21 U.S.C. §

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Prescribing Red Flags: Pharmacists Be Wary of What the Doctor Orders

FDA Law

By Larry K. Houck Last month the U.S. Press Release , Walgreens Agrees To Pay Up to $350M for Illegally Filling Unlawful Opioid Prescriptions and Submitting False Claims, U.S. Attorneys Office, Northern District of Illinois, April 21, 2025.

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‘We Need To Keep Fighting’: HIV Activists Organize To Save Lives as Trump Guts Funding

Physician's Weekly

In the 1980s, the government refused to acknowledge HIV as gay men died young. He kept his diagnosis hidden from friends and family because he knew how people talked about HIV. — Cedric Sturdevant woke up with “a bit of depression” but made it to church, as he does every Sunday.

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Trump Whacks Agency That Makes the Nation’s Health Care Safer

Physicians News Digest

At their first meeting with the leadership of AHRQ last month, officials from Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency said that they didn’t know what the agency did — and that its budget would be cut by 80% to 90%, according to two people with knowledge of the meeting who were granted anonymity because of fears of retribution.