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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Nine Bills Targeting Prescription Drug Misuse Signed Into
Law In <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Utah</st1:place></st1:State>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The Desert Morning News (UT) (4/29) reports, "Nine
bills that target <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Utah</st1:place></st1:State>'s
biggest drug problem -- prescription misuse and abuse" have been
"signed into law...by Gov. Gary Herbert."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>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." <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>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."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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color:#993366'>Stevan Gressitt, M.D., Medical Director</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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face="Goudy Old Style"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Goudy Old Style";
color:#993366'>Office of Adult Mental Health Services</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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face="Goudy Old Style"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Goudy Old Style";
color:#993366'>Department of Health and Human Services</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
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font-family:"Goudy Old Style";color:#993366'>, 2nd Floor</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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color:#993366'>11 State House Station</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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Blossom Lane</span></font></st1:address></st1:Street><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on"><font size=2 color="#993366" face="Goudy Old Style"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Goudy Old Style";color:#993366'>Augusta</span></font></st1:City><font
size=2 color="#993366" face="Goudy Old Style"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Goudy Old Style";color:#993366'>, <st1:State w:st="on">ME</st1:State>
<st1:PostalCode w:st="on">04333-0011</st1:PostalCode></span></font></st1:place><o:p></o:p></p>
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face="Goudy Old Style"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Goudy Old Style";
color:#993366'>Ph: (207)287-4273</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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color:#993366'>Cell Phone: (207) 441-0291</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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face="Goudy Old Style"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Goudy Old Style";
color:#993366'>E-Mail : <a href="mailto:stevan.gressitt@maine.gov"
title="mailto:stevan.gressitt@maine.gov">stevan.gressitt@maine.gov</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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