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California SUD Treatment Industry Advertising/Marketing Lawsuit
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BREAKING NEWS – Florida Seek to Eliminate “Florida Model” of Addiction Treatment
In 2019, Florida’s Department of Children and Families (DCF), the state agency charged with licensing and regulating addiction treatment providers,...
South Florida Treatment Providers Sentenced to Federal Prison for Their Roles in $21 Million Fraud Scheme
The U.S. Department of Justice in coordination with the Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (HHS-OIG) just issued the...
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Hot off of the (local) presses is an article written by South Florida Sun Sentinel reporter Marc Freeman, in his piece “More arrests to come in...
Medication Assisted Treatment Deemed Appropriate for Sober Living
Alison Knopf, the award-winning journalist and editor of Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly (ADAW), recently published an article highlighting...
Travel Assistance, Patient Financial Responsibility, and Good Intentions
Last week was the annual Moments of Change conference at The Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach. A beautiful venue for a long-running gathering of...
Harm Reduction – Supervised Injection Sites
A federal judge ruled on Tuesday, October 2, 2019, that a Philadelphia nonprofit group's plan to open the first site in the U.S. where people can...
DCF Updates Rules Regulating SUD Treatment Providers
Today (technically on 8/9), DCF released its Final Version of the rewrite of the rules regulating treatment providers, found within Chapter 65D-30...
EMRs and the Sale of Patient Data, Part 1
Amongst all aspects of regulatory compliance as an addiction treatment provider, the privacy and security of Patient Health Information (“PHI”) as...
Prosecutors bring rare criminal charges against Ohio opioid distributor
Federal prosecutors in Cincinnati filed criminal charges Wednesday against an opioid distributor and two of its top former officers, including its...