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Prescription drug take-back event Saturday

Standard-Examiner staff Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, April 23, 2013 - 11:27pm

CLEARFIELD — Several local and state agencies and community organizations are partnering with a prescription drug “take-back” event to prevent increased pill abuse, theft and harm to the environment.

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Davis drug-court grad faces 21 prescription fraud charges

Loretta Park Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, April 4, 2013 - 6:29am

FARMINGTON — A 36-year-old Clearfield woman who graduated from drug court a year ago is facing 21 charges of prescription fraud.

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Biosimilar drug bill clears hurdle

Antone Clark Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - 10:11pm

SALT LAKE CITY — A local lawmaker’s push to help facilitate the introduction of biosimilar drugs to the Utah market has cleared a key committee hurdle.

SB 78, sponsored by Sen. Stuart Adams, R-Layton, received a favorable recommendation in a Senate committee Wednesday and now advances to the Senate for further review.

Biosimilar drugs are popular in Europe and contain an active drug substance made by a living organism or are derived from a living organism by means of controlled gene-expression methods.

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Hearing rescheduled for Syracuse's former fire chief

Loretta Park Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, June 14, 2012 - 10:33pm

FARMINGTON — A felony arraignment hearing for former Syracuse Fire Chief Craig Cottrell, 42, was rescheduled Thursday.

Deputy Davis County Attorney Jason Nelson said in court that Cottrell’s attorney had a family emergency that required her attention.

Judge Thomas L. Kay set the hearing for June 28. Cottrell faces two third-degree felony charges of obtaining a prescription under false pretenses. Prosecutors said the prescriptions were for Lortab, a controlled substance.

Cottrell resigned from the Syracuse Fire Department on Dec. 15, the day charges were filed.

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Walgreens offers new drug discounts

John Dorschner The Miami Herald

Last updated Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - 4:38pm

MIAMI -- Walgreens announced Tuesday an expanded Prescription Savings Club offering discounts on 8,000 brand and generic medications, including some generics for as low as $1 a week for a 90-day supply.

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Dewey MacKay (right) walks into the Frank E. Moss U.S. Courthouse in Salt Lake City with his wife, Kathleen, for a sentencing hearing on Dec. 19. The 64-year-old doctor was convicted of 40 charges in August related to a prescription-drug operation that resulted in the death of a patient. He has been ordered to report April 30 for his prison sentence. (Associated Press file photo)

Brigham City pain doc ordered to start prison term April 30

Tim Gurrister Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, March 9, 2012 - 11:35pm

SALT LAKE CITY — A federal judge has set April 30 as the date for convicted pain doctor Dewey MacKay to begin serving his 20-year prison term.

The 64-year-old former Brigham City physician will “report to a facility designated by the United States Bureau of Prisons to begin serving his sentence no later than 12 noon on April 30,” reads Judge Dee Benson’s order released Friday.

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More from out of state selling illegal drugs in Utah

Loretta Park Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, December 27, 2011 - 7:24am

Local law enforcement agencies saw a disturbing trend in 2011 of out-of-state crews coming into the area to sell illegal drugs, everything from marijuana and methamphetamine to illegal prescriptions, cocaine and heroin.

"This is just following a national trend that has hit here," said Lt. Darin Parke with the Weber-Morgan Narcotics Strike Force.

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Boxes of expired pharmaceuticals are unloaded at Wasatch Integrated Waste Management in Layton Friday, Nov. 4, 2011. A semi-trailer truck full of the expired pharmaceuticals was brought from California to be incinerated at the plant. (Erin Hooley/Standard-Examiner)

Davis County collects 817 pounds of unused medicine

Bryon Saxton Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, November 4, 2011 - 2:58pm

LAYTON -- In Davis County, 814 pounds of unused prescription and over-the-counter medicines was collected as part of the national "clean out your medicine cabinet" fall campaign.

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A pharmacy technician counts hydrocodone tablets in Edmond, Okla., earlier this year. Hydrocodone is the key ingredient in the painkiller Vicodin. The number of overdose deaths from powerful painkillers more than tripled over a decade, the government reported Tuesday. (Associated Press file photo)

Utah ranks 4th nationwide in overdose deaths

Mitch Shaw Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, November 2, 2011 - 8:36am

SALT LAKE CITY -- Utah ranks fourth in the nation in deaths from prescription drug overdoses, according to a report issued Tuesday by the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

"It's not terribly surprising," Utah Department of Public Health spokesman Tom Hudachko said of Utah's high ranking.

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Millerberg search warrants reveal much about relationship with teen

Tim Gurrister Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, November 4, 2011 - 6:40am

OGDEN -- Search warrants show Alexis Rasmussen was much more than just a baby sitter to Eric and Dea Millerberg, the couple now suspected in the death of the 16-year-old.

Rasmussen was baby-sitting for the Millerbergs when she disappeared Sept. 10. Her body was found Oct. 18 in a remote area of Morgan County, near Taggart.

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Got pills? Ditch them Saturday

Bryon Saxton Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, October 24, 2011 - 10:51pm

LAYTON -- A half-ton of unused over-the-counter and prescription medicines are expected to be collected Saturday in Davis County through the biannual "clean out your medicine cabinet" campaign.

A similar effort that day will take place in Weber County. Last year's effort there resulted in 475 pounds of unused medicines being collected, Weber-Morgan County Health officials said.

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Closing arguments to begin in MacKay trial

Lynn DeBruin The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, August 16, 2011 - 3:51pm

SALT LAKE CITY — A Brigham City doctor acknowledged Tuesday he once prescribed 450 pain pills in 37 days for a patient but testified the drugs were "appropriate medicine" and "had no reason to doubt" the man’s intentions.

Dewey C. MacKay, 64, has pleaded not guilty to illegally prescribing millions of painkillers to thousands of patients without evaluating their conditions or proving basic examinations. Prosecutors claim that recklessness led to a patient’s death in 2006.

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Feds: MacKay improperly prescribed millions of pain pills

The Associated Press The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, July 20, 2011 - 3:03pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- Federal prosecutors told a jury Wednesday that a Brigham City doctor prescribed millions of pain pills to people without adequately evaluating their conditions or providing even basic physical examinations.

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129 charges against Brigham City doctor whittled to 86

Tim Gurrister Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, July 18, 2011 - 10:06pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- The trial began Monday in federal court with jury selection and the dismissal of exactly one-third of the charges against former Brigham City orthopedic surgeon-turned-pain doctor Dewey MacKay.

In an order signed Monday, U.S. District Judge for Utah Dee Benson dismissed 43 of the 129 charges against MacKay of dealing prescription painkillers.

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