Contents tagged with drug abuse

• Missed opportunities in the 84th Texas Legislature

  Tags: legislature, legislative update, 84th, medicaid, banning, medicare, graduate medical education, nelson, zerwas, residency, family medicine residency program, higher education, primary care coalition, texas medical association, preceptorship, bonnen, hancock, direct primary care, schwrtner, crownover, prescription, drug abuse, substance abuse, darby, yogi

  Tuesday, June 2, 2015 4:26:00 PM

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  By Tom Banning
  TAFP CEO/EVP

  Yogi Berra famously said I hate making predictions, especially about the future. It’s particularly painful when those predictions come true as was the case for many of the predictions TAFP made at the outset of the 84th Texas Legislature on how health care issues would fare this session.

  Playing to their primary voters, the House and Senate focused attention almost solely on tax cuts, border security, transportation, when and where you can carry a gun, and a host of other mostly inconsequential partisan ideas.

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• Hydrocodone combinations become Schedule II drugs on Oct. 6

  Tags: hydrocodone, drug enforcement administration, drug abuse, texas medical board

  Friday, September 12, 2014 11:38:00 AM

  Hydrocodone combinations become Schedule II drugs on Oct. 6

  posted 9.12.14, updated 10.2.14

  Pharmaceuticals containing hydrocodone will be reclassified from Schedule III to Schedule II as of Oct. … more

• Encourage your patients to dispose of unused medications at National Take-Back Event

  Tags: drug enforcement administration, prescription, drug abuse

  Tuesday, April 2, 2013 9:27:00 AM

  Encourage your patients to dispose of unused medications at National Take-Back Event

  posted 04.03.13

  Abuse and misuse of prescription drugs is a serious problem in the United States, particularly … more