Princess Health and Kentucky is cracking down on Suboxone, a heroin substitute that has become a big part of the illegal trade in painkillers.Princessiccia

Princess Health and Kentucky is cracking down on Suboxone, a heroin substitute that has become a big part of the illegal trade in painkillers.Princessiccia

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A drug that was supposed to help people get off heroin has "created a new...

Princess Health and Princess Health andNew rule allows Medicare to drop doctors for irresponsible prescribing.Princessiccia

Princess Health and Princess Health andNew rule allows Medicare to drop doctors for irresponsible prescribing.Princessiccia

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Medicare physicians who prescribe drugs in abusive ways can now be expelled by the...

Princess Health and Legislature sends fix of last year's pill-mill bill to Beshear.Princessiccia

Princess Health and Legislature sends fix of last year's pill-mill bill to Beshear.Princessiccia

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"After more than a year of debate, a bill that would revamp Kentucky�s prescription-drug...

Princess Health and House sends Senate pill-mill and Medicaid managed-care fixes.Princessiccia

Princess Health and House sends Senate pill-mill and Medicaid managed-care fixes.Princessiccia

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The state House yesterday approved without dissent two bills aimed at improving...

Princess Health and House panel approves bill easing rules of 2012's pill-mill bill.Princessiccia

Princess Health and House panel approves bill easing rules of 2012's pill-mill bill.Princessiccia

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They could call it the pill they're taking to fix the pill-mill bill.A state House...

Princess Health and Beshear calls for action to improve state's health, but says only that 'It's time for us to begin looking seriously' at a smoking ban.Princessiccia

Princess Health and Beshear calls for action to improve state's health, but says only that 'It's time for us to begin looking seriously' at a smoking ban.Princessiccia

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By Al CrossKentucky Health NewsHis priorities were education and tax reform, but...

Princess Health and FDA likely to make hydrocodone painkillers harder to prescribe.Princessiccia

Princess Health and FDA likely to make hydrocodone painkillers harder to prescribe.Princessiccia

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Prescription painkillers containing hydrocodone should be placed in a more restrictive...

Princess Health and State prescription drug databases like KASPER cut back doctor shopping and drug abuse, new study shows.Princessiccia

Princess Health and State prescription drug databases like KASPER cut back doctor shopping and drug abuse, new study shows.Princessiccia

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Photo by iStockphotoResearch from the University of North Carolina indicates drug...

Princess Health and Major newspapers publish reflections, reactions and details (including videos) on new law that will fight 'pill mills'.Princessiccia

Princess Health and Major newspapers publish reflections, reactions and details (including videos) on new law that will fight 'pill mills'.Princessiccia

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Reflections on the new law to fight "pill mills" are in both of Kentucky's major...

Princess Health and Beshear OKs prescription bill, telling pill mills, 'Get out of this state'.Princessiccia

Princess Health and Beshear OKs prescription bill, telling pill mills, 'Get out of this state'.Princessiccia

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Saying it couldn't get to his desk quickly enough, Gov. Steve Beshear signed a bill...

Princess Health and Pill-mill bill passes; attorney general won't get drug-monitoring system but narcotic-prescribing doctors will have to use it.Princessiccia

Princess Health and Pill-mill bill passes; attorney general won't get drug-monitoring system but narcotic-prescribing doctors will have to use it.Princessiccia

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House Speaker Greg Stumbo, center, walkswith House budget committee chair RickRand...

Princess Health and Pill-mill bill does not pass as legislative session ends in failure; special session starts Monday.Princessiccia

Princess Health and Pill-mill bill does not pass as legislative session ends in failure; special session starts Monday.Princessiccia

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Though it's considered by experts as the most important bill needed this year, the...

Princess Health and Pain-pill problem has spread to new areas from Appalachia.Princessiccia

Princess Health and Pain-pill problem has spread to new areas from Appalachia.Princessiccia

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Sales of hydrocodone (the key ingredient of Vicodin, Norco and Lortab) and oxycodone...

Princess Health and Doctors' lobby still working for changes in 'pill mill' legislation.Princessiccia

Princess Health and Doctors' lobby still working for changes in 'pill mill' legislation.Princessiccia

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By Al CrossKentucky Health NewsThe Kentucky Medical Association, historically one...

Princess Health and In bipartisan way, political leaders push passage of 'pill mill' bill.Princessiccia

Princess Health and In bipartisan way, political leaders push passage of 'pill mill' bill.Princessiccia

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A bipartisan group of political leaders issued a call today "to pass a bill that...

Princess Health and Legislature passes bill on personal-care homes but stalls on one to regulate pill mills as doctors lobby hard.Princessiccia

Princess Health and Legislature passes bill on personal-care homes but stalls on one to regulate pill mills as doctors lobby hard.Princessiccia

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By Al CrossKentucky Health NewsThe effort to quash "pill mills" that feed one of...

Princess Health and Meds-for-meth, pain-pill bills each clear a second chamber; both probably headed to conference committee(s).Princessiccia

Princess Health and Meds-for-meth, pain-pill bills each clear a second chamber; both probably headed to conference committee(s).Princessiccia

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"State lawmakers gave new life Wednesday to two bills designed to tackle Kentucky's...

Princess Health and Senate panel OKs pill-mill bill with provision moving prescription-monitoring system to attorney general's office.Princessiccia

Princess Health and Senate panel OKs pill-mill bill with provision moving prescription-monitoring system to attorney general's office.Princessiccia

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Over the objections of the Kentucky Medical Association, a Senate committee today...