ADHD Drugs Top Rx for Kids

Prescription drug use in the pediatric population fell from 2002 to 2010, but the use of birth control and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) medications rose, the FDA reported.

Outpatient contraceptive prescriptions jumped 93% from 2002 to 2010 among kids 17 and younger, Grace Chai, PharmD, of the agency’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research in Silver Spring, Md., and colleagues found.

ADHD drug scripts rose 46% over the same period in the national analysis of prescription databases reported in the July issue of Pediatrics.

via Medical News: FDA: ADHD Drugs Top Rx for Kids – in Pediatrics, General Pediatrics from MedPage Today.

Birth control and chronic sedation have replaced traditional parenting.

Go Do – How Hard Can It Be?

Change This – Go Do: How Hard Can It Be?.

If you work hard and love what you do you will find success.  Common sense tells us we all become pretty skilled at things we love to do.  Conversely, you will never get good at things you hate to do.

Hard work alone is not a guarantee of success.  The lack of hard work guarantees failure.

Failure leads to success.  You must fail to learn how to succeed.

 

Do or not do.  There is no try.

Yoda

Helmet Use Among Motorcyclists Who Died in Crashes US 2008–2010

During 2008–2010, a total of 14,283 motorcyclists were killed in crashes, among whom 6,057 (42%) were not wearing a helmet. In the 20 states with a universal helmet law, 739 (12%) fatally injured motorcyclists were not wearing a helmet, compared with 4,814 motorcyclists (64%) in the 27 states with partial helmet laws and 504 (79%) motorcyclists in the three states without a helmet law

via Helmet Use Among Motorcyclists Who Died in Crashes and Economic Cost Savings Associated With State Motorcycle Helmet Laws — United States, 2008–2010.

Teva’s Adderall 30 mg Tabs – Counterfeit Product – Contains Wrong Active Ingredients

The counterfeit Adderall tablets are round, white and do not have any type of markings, such as letters or numbers. Authentic Adderall 30 mg tablets produced by Teva are round, orange/peach, and scored tablets with “dp” embossed on one side and “30” on the other side of the tablet.

Adderall contains four active ingredients – dextroamphetamine saccharate, amphetamine aspartate, dextroamphetamine sulfate, and amphetamine sulfate. Instead of these active ingredients, the counterfeit product contained tramadol and acetaminophen, which are ingredients in medicines used to treat acute pain.

via Safety Alerts for Human Medical Products > Teva’s Adderall 30 mg Tablets: Counterfeit Product – Contains Wrong Active Ingredients.

If you or your child is bouncing off the walls AND you bought Adderall off the Internet, check to see if your tablets are white and have no markings.

 

Have you reviewed your HIPAA policies, training, and compliance lately?

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HIPAA PRIVACY ENFORCEMENT ON THE RISE

In February 2009, as part of the economic stimulus legislation known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Congress enacted the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH).  HITECH not only provided federal incentives for medical care providers to accelerate implementation of electronic health records systems, but also broadened the categories of those responsible for protecting the patient health information contained in those records and significantly increased the penalties for HIPAA violations.

The original HIPAA Privacy Rule finalized in 2002 applied only to “covered entities” such as health care providers, health plans, health care clearinghouses and later, sponsors of drug discount cards under Medicare. The Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is responsible for civil enforcement of HIPAA privacy regulations.  Under the original Privacy Rule, OCR lacked direct enforcement authority against the  “business associates” of covered…

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