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A Long Time Coming: DEA Regs Finally Authorize Schedule II Prescription Partial Fills

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

Houck — President Barack Obama signed the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of 2016 (“CARA”) intended to reverse serious prescription drug abuse trend in the United States on July 22, 2016. Partial Filling of Prescriptions for Schedule II Controlled Substances, 85 Fed. By Larry K. 78,282 (Dec.

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Federal Marijuana Rescheduling: States Get Ready

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

Comments ranged from single sentence declarations to lengthy, cogent treatises, expounding on whether to reschedule marijuana from schedule I to schedule III or another schedule under the federal Controlled Substances Act (“CSA”), to leave marijuana in schedule I, or to deschedule altogether. 21 U.S.C. § 812(c)(c)(10). 21 U.S.C. §

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Two “Unresolvable” Prescribing/Dispensing Red Flags Unfurled

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

However, the 2022 Clinical Practice Guideline, which updated the CDCs 2016 Guideline, notes that its recommendations are voluntary and intended to be flexible to support, not supplant, individualized, patient-centered care. Recommendation 1. at Background.

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HP&M’s Larry Houck A Panelist at FDLI’s Cannabis Regulation Conference

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

Last August the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”)/Health and Human Services (“HHS”) recommended that the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”) reschedule cannabis from schedule I under the federal Controlled Substances Act (“CSA”) to schedule III.

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How to Handle Gabapentin Abuse

Med Ed 101

It is a tough question, much like opioid, benzo, stimulant, or any other controlled substance. Recognizing the risk of abuse potential, in August 2016, Minnesota added it to its list of drugs that need to be reported on […]. The post How to Handle Gabapentin Abuse appeared first on Med Ed 101.

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Senators to DEA: Consider Treaty Obligations In Marijuana Rescheduling

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

The Senators implore efforts to reschedule marijuana be driven by facts, “not the administration’s favored policy,” and question whether rescheduling would violate the Controlled Substances Act (“CSA”) and U.S. 811(d) required classification of marijuana as a schedule I or II substance to comply with U.S. 811(d) and U.S.

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“Heigh-ho” Taiho! The PTO Says LYTGOBI Patent is Ineligible for PTE Because of Untimely Application. And a Corrected NDA Approval Letter is No Saving Grace

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

Post-AIA, and a later change to the law to account for controlled substance FDA application approvals, the PTE statute at 35 U.S.C. § After all, as we posted in 2016 , there have been approval date resets under certain circumstances. But there may be more out there.