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Iowa Senator makes Oregon Medicaid prescriber data available

June 17, 2013
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By Jenny Westberg, June 17, 2013 Who are the state’s top prescription writers for widely abused drugs like Oxycontin and Xanax? How much does Oregon’s Medicaid  program pay for expensive mental health drugs like Seroquel and Zyprexa? The data obtained by Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) may not provide every answer about Oregon clinicians’ prescribing practices, […]

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Oregon Study: Medical Journals Paint a Too-Rosy Picture of New Antipsychotic Drugs

March 24, 2012
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By Joe Rojas-Burke, The Oregonian, Friday, March 23, 2012 Published reports on the new drug Fanapt gave it high marks. One medical journal emphasized its “comparable efficacy” to other drugs used to treat schizophrenia, and prominently noted a lower risk of certain side effects. There was no mention that competing drugs outperformed it in three […]

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Off-Label Use Of Risky Antipsychotic Drugs Raises Concerns

March 19, 2012
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By Sandra G. Boodman, for Kaiser Health News, March 12, 2012 This story was produced in collaboration with The Washington Post. Adriane Fugh-Berman was stunned by the question: Two graduate students who had no symptoms of mental illness wondered if she thought they should take a powerful schizophrenia drug each had been prescribed to treat […]

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