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AMA strengthens policy on electronic cigarettes to protect youth

The AMA today adopted new policy to further strengthen its support of regulatory oversight of electronic cigarettes.

Press Releases
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6 things you can do to prevent opioid abuse

Deaths from heroin also have increased substantially testified AMA Board of Trustees Secretary Patrice A. Harris, MD, before a congressional committee. She emphasized six key actions physicians can take to prevent opioid abuse.

Behavioral Health
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Tobacco to be banned from San Francisco ballparks

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed a draft ordinance that will prohibit all tobacco products from baseball parks and athletic fields in San Francisco city and county.

Behavioral Health
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Stakeholders identify prescribing and dispensing challenges

The AMA and 16 other organizations representing physicians, pharmacists, and other stakeholders developed a document identifying the challenges of prescribing and dispensing medicines such as opioids.

Behavioral Health
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AMA helps stop inapt prescribing, dispensing of controlled substances

The AMA has joined with organizations representing physicians and other groups to develop a study highlighting warning signs of prescription drug abuse.

Press Releases
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Safety leaders, physicians seek stronger state Rx efforts

More than 150 medical, public health, patient and health care organizations came together to ask the nation’s governors for increased emphasis on overdose prevention and treatment as part of the effort to combat prescription drug abuse, misuse, overdose and death.

Behavioral Health
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How physicians are taking on Rx drug use in 2015

Effectively reducing opioid misuse and increasing overdose prevention and treatment efforts are a key part of state and federal advocacy in the coming year. As physicians and policymakers tackle the prescription drug issue head-on, progress is being made on the state and federal levels.

Behavioral Health
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Court case places patient-physician relationship in the balance

Two essential elements of medical practice—patient privacy and the patient-physician relationship—are at stake in a case before a federal appeals court that involves a state PDMP and surveillance by the DEA.

Judicial Advocacy
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From Ebola to e-cigarettes, delegates pass public health policy

Delegates at the 2014 AMA Interim Meeting in Dallas this week weighed in on a number of timely public health issues which included regulatory oversight of electronic cigarettes and the important role of pharmacists in vaccinating target populations.

AMA Policies