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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 […]

The MAG Foundation is reminding physicians that Georgia’s 9-1-1 Medical Amnesty law allows them to prescribe standing orders of naloxone. Naloxone is an effective, non-addictive prescription medication that reverses the effects of opioid drug overdoses. Under the 9-1-1 Medical Amnesty Law, a unit dose of naloxone can be delivered on an intranasal or intramuscular basis. […]

The MAG Foundation is encouraging physicians in southeast Georgia to attend a ribbon-cutting ceremony that will take place at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, October 6 – when the Okefenokee Medical Society will donate a prescription drug disposal box to the Waycross Police Department, which is located at 512 Oak Street. The donation, made possible by […]