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Dental Opioid Prescriptions Put Families at Risk of Overdose
Overdose rates are two and a half times higher among patients who filled a...
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Dentist Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison for Opioid and Medicare Fraud
Bradley A. Seyer, DDS, of Florissant, Missouri, has been sentenced to 18 months of...
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More Than Half of Dental Opioid Prescriptions Exceed CDC Guidelines
About half of the opioid prescriptions written by dentists in the United States exceed...
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Dental Receptionist Sentenced to Prison for Forging Opioid Prescriptions
On October 28, Senior US District Court Judge Sylvia H. Rambo sentenced Belinda Dietrich...
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Dentist Sentenced to Eight and a Half Years in Prison for Opioid Conspiracy
A dentist in Virginia Beach has been sentenced to nearly eight and a half...
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Large-Scale Study to Explore Ibuprofen and Acetaminophen as Opioid Alternatives
The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research has awarded the Rutgers School of...
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US Dentists Prescribe 37 Times More Opioids Than English Dentists
Dentists in the United States write 37 times more opioid prescriptions than those practicing...
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Walgreens Settles Fraud Cases for $269.2 Million
On January 22, 2019, the United States Department of Justice (USDOJ) announced the settlement...
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Hydrocodone Prescriptions Continue After Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
As the nation continues to wrestle with opioid misuse and addiction, oral and maxillofacial...
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100 Million Opioids Go Unused After Tooth Extractions
More than half of the opioids prescribed to patients after the extractions of wisdom...