Bills Aim to Curb Heroin, Prescription Abuse

Bills aim to curb heroin, prescription abuse
About $ 180 million in Medicaid savings dollars would pay for these programs. • House Bill 378 (Sprague, Smith): Prohibits a physician from prescribing certain drugs unless the patient is receiving behavioral counseling or treatment. • Rep. Barbara … Read more on Coshocton Tribune

Impasse in search for women's Viagra
It's a market drugmakers have been trying to tap since the success of Viagra, an erectile-dysfunction drug that was developed in the late 1990s to increase blood flow to the genitals. But unlike sexual problems in men, most of women's … Likewise … Read more on Stuff.co.nz

End the senseless syringe funding ban [Commentary]
The ban is a remnant of the polarized HIV/AIDS debate in the '80s and '90s, when politicians wrongly believed that providing sterile syringes would increase drug use. In fact, research shows that SSPs connect people to addiction treatment and overdose … Read more on Baltimore Sun