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AHF Cheers Supreme Court ‘Rutledge’ Ruling Allowing States to Regulate PBMs

The Pharma Data

Pharmaceutical Care Management Association , the Court recognized that state legislatures have important powers to regulate abuses of corporate healthcare middlemen, called Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs). In Rutledge v.

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To address the fentanyl crisis, greater access to methadone Is needed

National Institute on Drug Abuse: Nora's Blog

An analysis of reports to poison control centers found a small increase in intentional methadone exposures in the year following the loosening of federal methadone regulations, but no significant increases in exposure severity, hospitalizations, or deaths.