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Changes Coming for Prescribers to the Texas Prescription Drug Monitoring Program

By Mark S. Armstrong, JD, Polsinelli, PC

In response to the opioid epidemic, many states, including Texas, created prescription drug monitoring programs to monitor high-risk patients and provider behaviors. The Texas Prescription Drug Monitoring Program ...

February 3, 2020

Legal

Terminally ill patients in Texas now have the “right to try”

By Mark S. Armstrong, J.D., Epstein Becker Green

On June 16, 2015, Governor Abbott signed into law H.B. 21, known as the “Right to Try Act” and the law became immediately effective, thereby allowing patients with terminal illnesses the right to use potentially ...

July 8, 2015