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Blog post by Bernadette Keefe MD This lets you access 100 % your brain A tablet a day and I was limitless What’s your secret? Medication A perfect version of ourselves…power… What would you do?? -Excerpts from “Limitless” The Movie Trailer Introduction...

BOSTON, MA – A coalition of state and federal agencies last wek announced the formation of the Interagency Group on Illegal Prescribing, which will investigate and prosecute prescribers, pharmacists and others who contribute to the opioid epidemic by...

Five days after the House of Representatives passed the conference report to the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA) (S. 524) by an overwhelming majority of 407 to 5, the Senate followed suit, approving the conference report 92 to 2 and sending...

WPCNR ALBANY ROUNDS. From Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Office. May 10, 2016: Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced the launch of a statewide heroin task force charged with ending the heroin and opioid crisis in New York. The group, comprised of a broad...

Opioid abuse is a public health crisis.  According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Opioids (including prescription opioid pain relievers  and heroin) killed more than 28,000 people in 2014, more than any year on record. At least half...