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Cigna, one of America's largest health insurers, says it has reduced the use of prescription opioids among its members by 25%. That percent reduction had been set as a goal last
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Gov. Phil Murphy announced Tuesday several immediate changes that will allow the state's medicinal marijuana program to expand far beyond the 18,500 patients who are enrolled now. The biggest change: people
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The opioid epidemic continues to rage across America, tearing families and communities apart. In 2016, 64,070 Americans died from drug overdose, usually with opioids. That's more than the entire
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Trump's opioid initiative, announced last week, plugged the death penalty for drug dealers and cutting illegal immigration, which Trump blamed for much of the opioid scourge, but it was
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The city of Anaheim and its police department are cracking down on marijuana dispensaries operating illegally within the city. (KABC). KABC. By Greg Lee. Tuesday, March 27, 2018 08:55PM. ANAHEIM, Calif.
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The interest in Louisiana's medical marijuana is growing, but companies vying for the right to sell it need to wait a little bit longer before they get the go ahead from
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Health insurer Cigna on Wednesday said it had cut its opioid use by 25% since 2016. In 2016, Cigna committed to lowering opioid use among its customers by 25%
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While the opioid crisis is having a stronger hold on other parts of the United States, Mancuso says opioids are becoming an issue. "We have not seen it in
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President Donald Trump tweeted his support of a traveling opioid-abuse memorial that will be open to the public outside the White House for a week starting April 12. "I encourage all
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Roseanne Scotti, New Jersey state director of the Drug Policy Alliance, who was among those who lobbied to pass the medical marijuana law eight years ago, thanked the governor and commissioner
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Cynthia Humphreys, with the Texas non-profit Association of Substance Abuse Programs, said the typical demographics for an opioid abuser in Texas is a middle-income white suburbanite. And like most addicting drugs,
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Startups in the fledgling — but fast-growing — industry are vying to create the first household name associated with marijuana. With investment bank Cowen & Co. seeing legal marijuana
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