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DEA’s Crackdown on Online Prescriptions Threatens Patients, Startups
DEA’s Crackdown on Online Prescriptions Threatens Patients, Startups

DEA’s Crackdown on Online Prescriptions Threatens Patients, Startups

Thanks to the pandemic, doctors have been able to prescribe more kinds of drugs online. One such drug is buprenorphine, a medication that treats opioid-use disorder.  Proposed rules would put an end to that, making care for addiction harder to find. For the past three years, doctors have been able to do something that’s normally illegal: prescribe potentially addictive medications, called controlled substances, to patients they see online. Thanks to the public-health emergency, this temporary allowance — along with other…

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A looming recession threatens Americans’ already precarious mental health – The Hill
A looming recession threatens Americans’ already precarious mental health – The Hill

A looming recession threatens Americans’ already precarious mental health – The Hill

Story at a look When the economy normally takes a flip for the worse, fatalities of despair — or overdoses, suicides, and material abuse-linked fatalities — have a tendency to rise. As the nation struggles to satisfy enhanced demand for mental wellness care resulting from the pandemic, a likely recession could exacerbate these challenges. But bettering communication and broadening access to companies can enable mitigate damaging overall health repercussions likely to get location really should the financial state continue on…

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