San Diego-Based Company Zogenix Responds to Zohydro Criticism
San Diego-Based Company Zogenix Responds to Zohydro Criticism
A San Diego-based company has set up a board of experts to guard against abuse of its powerful new painkiller that public health authorities fear could worsen heroin and prescription drug abuse. Zogenix, which makes Zohydro, said the drug is no more potent …
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Steel Magnolia Singer’s Battle with Drug Abuse
17, 2011, Joshua Scott Jones was alone in the presidential suite at a San Diego Hyatt, nursing a beer … It was a turning point for Jones, for whom substance abuse had long been a daily routine. “On any given weekend, it was pills, booze …
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Legal Highs?
You can smoke them, or swallow them. Toxicologist Richard Clark says the new ways to abuse drugs are all legal. “Some people call these legal highs,” Richard Clark, MD, Director of Toxicology, UC San Diego Health System, told Ivanhoe. “Bath salts …
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Ban On Painkiller Raises Constitutional Questions
amid concerns that the drug’s availability might exacerbate the state’s prescription drug abuse epidemic. But Zogenix, the San Diego-based maker of the drug, filed a federal lawsuit on Monday arguing that the ban was unconstitutional because the U.S. Food …
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Tahoe-Truckee events address National Alcohol Awareness Month
The month of April in Tahoe-Truckee will have special events with experts and community agencies to address underage drinking and drug abuse as a community issue. Partnering agencies include; the Truckee Police Department, Tahoe Truckee Unified School …
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Maker of Zohydro Sues Massachusetts to Block Ban
The company, which is based in California, noted that the Food and Drug Administration approved the drug last year. Zohydro is the only extended release capsule form of hydrocodone bitartrate available on the market and is recommended for use to those …
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Judge hits state on painkiller ban
Stephen J. Farr, president of the California-based Zogenix, said outside the courthouse that he welcomed Zobel's stand on the case, saying he has already proved the drug's worth and safety before the Food and Drug Administration, the country's drug …
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