[Pharmwaste] Can anyone give miore detail about the last sentence in article below? please?

[Gressitt, Stevan]

Nine Bills Targeting Prescription Drug Misuse Signed Into Law In Utah.

 

The Desert Morning News (UT) (4/29) reports, "Nine bills that target
Utah's biggest drug problem -- prescription misuse and abuse" have been
"signed into law...by Gov. Gary Herbert."

 

These "bills impose hundreds of changes designed to reduce the
exploitation of prescription drugs by reducing availability for abuse,
increase the awareness of risk to include the physical and psychological
harmful and legal sanctions, and decrease tolerance of the non-medical
use of pharmaceutical drugs." 

 

Additionally, "they added the muscle relaxer Soma [carisoprodol] to the
state's controlled substances list, make the selling of fake versions of
illegal drugs no different than selling the real thing and sets up a
network for disposing expired prescriptions pills that normally sit
unused."

 

Stevan Gressitt, M.D., Medical Director

Office of Adult Mental Health Services

Department of Health and Human Services

Marquardt Building, 2nd Floor

11 State House Station

32 Blossom Lane

Augusta, ME  04333-0011

Ph: (207)287-4273

Fax: (207)287-1022

Cell Phone: (207) 441-0291

E-Mail : stevan.gressitt at maine.gov

http://www.maine.gov/dhhs/mh/

 

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