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“With over eighty percent of New Yorkers saying that doctors over-prescribing opioids and allowing patients access to too many pain pills are at least somewhat responsible for the current level of
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The medical marijuana industry went high-end with a dispensary opening on Fifth Ave., while a long-time Brooklyn arts hub fueled by volunteers and fundraisers ... MedMen opened a sleek medical
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It's no coincidence the rise in children ordered into foster care came amid the spike in the ongoing heroin and prescription opioid crisis in Pennsylvania and nationwide. Each child welfare professional
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A lawsuit filed against Baldwin Park seeks to break the monopoly the city created when it approved a sole distribution business to serve all local marijuana cultivation and manufacture businesses. In
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MANKATO — Only two Minnesota doctors, none in southern Minnesota, were among the top 1,000 opioid prescribers in the federal Medicare program, according to data compiled from 2013 to 2015. With
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Some people see a great part of the push to allow medical marijuana as coming not from lifetime residents of Buchanan, but from others who have moved in, many from Chicago.
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KELLY J. CLARK, ROCKVILLE, MD. The writer is president of the American Society of Addiction Medicine. To the Editor: It is all too easy to assign blame for the opioid crisis
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A South Bay man was sentenced to four years in prison Friday for illegally structuring cash transactions from marijuana sales, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Steven J. Nemec, 46,
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Leftover drugs prescribed for legitimate reasons often get overlooked as a culprit in the opioid crisis, especially compared to overprescribing and illegal drugs. But government data shows that roughly 70 percent
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Before the upcoming vote on recreational cannabis, Michigan is looking to extend its medical marijuana program. To decide which conditions should be added to the list of those qualifying for medical marijuana, the state’s Medical Marihuana Review Panel heard from the...