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The Opioid Crisis Continues Amid The Coronavirus Pandemic

For obvious reasons, the world has been focused on the coronavirus pandemic for the past few months. However, as the Allegiant Experts Blog has highlighted on numerous occasions, the opioid crisis continues to ravage the United States. Sadly, such drugs as oxycodone, hydrocodone, codeine and morphine are responsible for an more »

Fentanyl is an opioid that is commonly used as a pain medication. When combined with other drugs, it can work as an anesthetic. Unfortunately, fentanyl is also used as a recreational drug and is often mixed with either heroin or cocaine. It is commonly administered by injection but can also more »

On behalf of the entire Allegiant Experts team, we’d like to wish you all a very happy new year! Yes, we realize that 2020 is already over one week old. But, with this being our first blog of the new decade, we still wanted to offer you our well wishes! more »

With a little over two weeks left in the year, many of us having been talking about “wrap ups” and “best of” lists. However, because we’re about to embark on a brand new decade, these lists of recollections include memories from the past ten years and not just the past more »

Over the past couple of weeks, the Allegiant Experts Blog has returned its focus to the topic of America’s opioid crisis. As we’ve highlighted in many a blog, it’s an epidemic that is taking lives at an alarming rate. Created to be pain killers, opioids of all kinds are becoming more »

Hydrocodone is an opioid that is used to treat cases of prolonged and severe pain. It is generally prescribed as a last measure when others have proven ineffective. Taken orally, hydrocodone is sold under the brand name, Hysingla and can also be used as a cough suppressant. Common side effects more »

The fact that there is an opioid crisis in the United States is practically common knowledge. With such drugs as fentanyl, hydromorphone, oxymorphone and oxycodone being so highly addictive, these pain killers are now known to be the chief causes of overdoses all over the country. In the past several more »

It’s no secret that the United States of America is currently entangled in a very serious opioid epidemic. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, opioid overdoses accounted for more than 42,000 deaths in 2016. That’s more than any previous year on record. An estimated 40 percent more »

The opioid crisis in America is not one to underestimate. The damage it has caused and continues to cause is irreparable. Overdoses are taking place at alarming rates and medical professionals all over the country seem to be making the situation worse. When drugs are illegally prescribed, they obviously get more »

The word “opioid” has practically become foul language, hasn’t it? The name, which once stood solely as a description of a family of pain relievers, is now synonymous with addiction, drug overdoses and health care fraud. As the Allegiant Experts Blog has covered extensively over the past several months, doctors, more »

The Opioid Crisis Continues Amid The Coronavirus Pandemic

The Opioid Crisis Continues Amid The Coronavirus Pandemic

Manhattan Doctor Gets 57-Month Prison Sentence For Role In Fentanyl Scheme

Philly Physician Gets Sentenced To A Year In Prison For Distributing Opioids

OIG Still Seeking Over 170 Fugitives On Health Care Fraud Charges

Pennsylvania Woman Gets A Year In Prison For Forging Opioid Prescriptions

California Doctor Get Two Years For Illegally Distributing Hydrocodone

The Opioid Crisis Continues: More Physicians Taken Down For Overprescribing Drugs

Detroit Health Care Clinic Owner Pleads Guilty To Oxycodone Scheme

Nevada Doctor Sentenced To Prison For Role In Worsening Opioid Crisis

Opioid-Making Company, Insys Settles Fraud Case For $225 Million