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Medical Marijuana: A Fact of Life for Arkansas Employers (Stuart Jackson Commentary)
The election is over, and Arkansas is now the latest of many states to have a medical marijuana law on the books.
Although the new amendment to the Arkansas Constitution is effective immediately, it should take some time for the approved use of medical marijuana to begin. At the very least, someone has to design and print the required "Registry Identification Cards" for users — unless one of your employees shows up with a registry identification card from another state and claims to be a "visiting qualifying patient."
So, what does the new law do? It allows (among other things) "qualifying patients" who ...
Source: Arkansas Business - Health Care - November 10, 2016 Category: American Health Source Type: news
In the Workplace 2017: How Arkansas Employers Can Deal with Medical Marijuana
Editor's Note: This is the first of five articles this week by the labor and employment team at the law firm of Wright Lindsey Jennings of Little Rock examining key trends for employers and the workplace in 2017. Here's a quick look at important employment issues that could arise next year.
Now that Arkansas is the latest state to have a medical marijuana law on the books, Arkansas employers must be prepared to address this issue.
Although the amendment to the Arkansas Constitution is effective immediately, it should take some time for most Arkansas residents to take advantage of the approved use of medical ...
Source: Arkansas Business - Health Care - December 26, 2016 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Evaluation of a hepatitis C education intervention with clients enrolled in methadone maintenance and needle/syringe programs in Malaysia
Approximately 40% –90% of people who inject drugs (PWID) in Malaysia have hepatitis C (HCV). PWID continue to be disproportionately affected by HCV due to their lack of knowledge, perceived risk and interest in HCV treatment. Education interventions may be an effective strategy for increasing HCV knowledge in PWID, and harm reduction services are uniquely positioned to implement and deploy such interventions.
Source: International Journal of Drug Policy - June 24, 2017 Category: Addiction Authors: Trena I. Mukherjee, Veena Pillai, Siti Hafizah Ali, Frederick L. Altice, Adeeba Kamarulzaman, Jeffrey A. Wickersham Source Type: research
Arkansas to Accept Medical Marijuana Card Applications
LITTLE ROCK — Arkansas' medical marijuana industry will ramp up in the next week, with the state poised to accept applications from potential patients, growers and distributors.
Beginning Friday, the state Medical Marijuana Commission will accept applications from those hoping to grow or supply marijuana, while the Health Department will take applications from those hoping to benefit from the first marijuana-as-medicine program in the Bible Belt. The application periods will run until Sept. 18.
State officials expect anywhere from 20,000 to 40,000 people to seek permission to use the drug for a number of health probl...
Source: Arkansas Business - Health Care - June 26, 2017 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Hepatitis C virus elimination in Swiss opioid agonist therapy programmes - the SAMMSU cohort
CONCLUSION: With nearly 100% DAA treatment success and a low reinfection rate, treatment uptake directly translates into a reduction of HCV-RNA prevalence. Eighty percent treatment uptake is feasible in OAT patients, and adherence and treatment success are not worse than in other populations. Duration of infectiousness and thus HCV transmission can be reduced by early detection and treatment of chronic hepatitis C.PMID:33705563 | DOI:10.4414/smw.2021.20460
Source: Swiss Medical Weekly - March 11, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: Andrea Bregenzer Philip Bruggmann Erika Castro Alberto Moriggia Madeleine Rothen Maria Christine Thurnheer Pietro Vernazza Claude Scheidegger Source Type: research
Inverse probability weighting for selection bias in a Delaware community health center electronic medical record study of community deprivation and hepatitis C prevalence
CONCLUSIONS: We observed that selection into the catchment area of the studied healthcare facility may bias the association of community deprivation and hepatitis C. This may be mitigated through inverse probability weighting.PMID:33933628 | DOI:10.1016/j.annepidem.2021.04.011
Source: Annals of Epidemiology - May 2, 2021 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Neal D Goldstein Deborah Kahal Karla Testa Igor Burstyn Source Type: research
Infectious Complications of Injection Drug Use
Med Clin North Am. 2022 Jan;106(1):187-200. doi: 10.1016/j.mcna.2021.08.006.ABSTRACTThe opioid overdose epidemic is one of the leading causes of death in adults. Its devastating effects have included not only a burgeoning overdose crisis but also multiple converging infectious diseases epidemics. The use of both opioids and other substances through intravenous (IV) administration places individuals at increased risks of infectious diseases ranging from invasive bacterial and fungal infections to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and viral hepatitis. In 2012, there were 530,000 opioid use disorder (OUD)-related hospitaliza...
Source: The Medical Clinics of North America - November 26, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: Laura R Marks Nathanial S Nolan Stephen Y Liang Michael J Durkin Melissa B Weimer Source Type: research
