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Marijuana in Arizona After Prop 207

The harsh laws regarding possession and use of marijuana have been under attack in Arizona and elsewhere for a number of years. This has been due in part to the relatively large number of individuals who are in jails and prisons in the United States compared with...

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The Surge in Fentanyl Overdose Deaths

Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid. There are a number of different analogs of the drug, but a typical dose of fentanyl is perhaps 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times as potent as morphine. While fentanyl has been used to bolster the effect of illegal drugs since...

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New Arizona Law Legalizes Fentanyl Testing Strips

A new bill signed into law last month by Governor Ducey legalized the use of testing strips to detect the presence of fentanyl in controlled substances. In the wake of skyrocketing drug deaths due to opiate overdoses, the new law will allow the purchase of the strips...

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What is Drug Paraphernalia?

We have all heard of drug paraphernalia, and most people think they understand what the term means. But a look at the statute in Arizona which makes possession of drug paraphernalia a crime, shows that the definition is much broader – and much less clear – than you...

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New Arizona Law Bans Paper Opioid Prescriptions

Under a new law in Arizona that went into effect on January 1, 2020, all opioid prescriptions must be transmitted from a physician to a pharmacy electronically. The e-prescribing of controlled substances (EPCS) is now the law to one degree or another in about half the...

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Insys Execs Sentenced for Fentanyl Bribery Scam

John Kapoor, founder of Insys Therapeutics based in Chandler, Arizona, was sentenced last week after being convicted of racketeering conspiracy. That conspiracy involved the bribery of doctors to prescribe the company’s painkiller, fentanyl. Fentanyl is a strong...

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Phoenix Drug Sting

As we have said on a number of occasions, many arrests are the result of police sting operations. Stings probably are used most commonly in the case of drug crimes. An example occurred last month with the alleged sale of fentanyl and heroin. The sting in this case was...

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Vaping Bust Leads to Multiple Drug Charges

Maricopa County investigators, armed with a search warrant, raided a home in Phoenix last month. We don’t know what the basis for the warrant was, but the cops apparently suspected that the home was being used for more than a residence. Here’s what the police say they...

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Pharma and the Opioid Epidemic

The news has been overflowing of late regarding what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) refers to as the opioid epidemic. We discussed the issue in our blog early last year. It includes drug addiction, drug overdoses and deaths, drug crimes, and...

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