[Pharmwaste] Utah pharma legislation

[Gilliam, Allen]

Thanx Steven,

Can anyone from the beehive state shed any more light with a website or url to these bills?  It would be much appreciated.

allen g
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From: pharmwaste-bounces at lists.dep.state.fl.us [mailto:pharmwaste-bounces at lists.dep.state.fl.us] On Behalf Of Gressitt, Stevan
Sent: Monday, May 03, 2010 12:27 PM
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Subject: [Pharmwaste] Can anyone give miore detail about the last sentence in article below? please?

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."

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