Today, Attorney General Sam Olens announced the winners of the “We’re Not Gonna Take It,” video contest aimed at preventing prescription drug abuse among teens at George Walton Comprehensive High School (Walton) in Marietta. The winning video was produced by Walton students Adam Schimdt and Vaughn Smith. The runner-up was produced by River Ridge High […]

ATLANTA – The Medical Association of Georgia Foundation is launching a ‘Higher Education TAKE-BACK Initiative’ to combat prescription drug abuse by funding drug drop boxes that will be placed on colleges and universities in the state. This program is part of the ‘Think About It’ campaign to reduce prescription drug abuse in Georgia. The TAKE-BACK […]

Patrice A. Harris, M.D., M.A., the chair of the American Medical Association’s (AMA) Board of Trustees and the chair of AMA’s Task Force to Reduce Opioid Abuse, will discuss the steps that AMA is taking to address the nation’s opioid drug abuse epidemic as well as the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 […]

CHICAGO (AP) — Accidental overdoses aren’t the only deadly risk from using powerful prescription painkillers — the drugs may also contribute to heart-related deaths and other fatalities, new research suggests. Among more than 45,000 patients in the study, those using opioid painkillers had a 64 percent higher risk of dying within six months of starting […]

The Winder Police Department recently issued a press release to thank the MAG Foundation for equipping its officers with naloxone, which reverses the effects of drug overdoses, and training them on its use – as well as funding two prescription drug disposal boxes in the area. The April 22 release stated that, “The City of […]

The Medical Association of Georgia is encouraging physicians and other applicable health care providers in the state to register for the state’s Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP). Physicians can use the PDMP to determine if their patients have obtained controlled substance prescriptions from other physicians and where those prescriptions have been filled. It is also […]

On May 14, the Apple Mountain Golf Course in Clarkesville will host a golf tournament that will serve as a memorial tribute to Jeffrey Gay – the grandson of MAG Foundation ‘Think About It’ campaign community co-Chair Dallas Gay who lost his life to prescription drug abuse in 2012. The tournament, which is organized by […]

The MAG Foundation is encouraging physicians in Georgia to attend the ‘National Rx Drug Abuse Summit’ that will take place at the Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel in Atlanta on March 28-31. Medical Association of Georgia member Patrice A. Harris, M.D., will give a talk on the “national effort of organized medicine to coordinate and collaborate […]

A recording of a recent Medical Association of Georgia (MAG) ‘Top Docs Radio’ show that addressed naloxone and the state’s ‘9-1-1 Medical Amnesty Law’ is now available online. The show featured MAG Foundation ‘Think About It’ campaign Community Chair Dallas Gay and Shonali Saha, M.D., who is an adolescent medicine and addiction medicine physician with […]