Strengthen Compliance to Avoid Management's Liability for Opioid Diversion

Reprinted with permission from Compliance Today, April 2018

Virtually no one disputes that we are in the middle of an opioid and fentanyl epidemic in the United States. Regardless of where one falls on the political spectrum, there is a recognition that prescription drug abuse is a crisis and is one of the biggest dangers to all of our communities. It leads to addiction, accidental death, and violence in our streets; and the cause of that devastation is in our medicine cabinets — and in controlled substance storage facilities at healthcare institutions. Read More

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