Five years after an Iowa nurse was convicted of drug-related crimes, he has agreed to surrender his Controlled Substances Act registration to the Iowa Board of Pharmacy. The disciplinary case is one of several in which the board has recently sanctioned Iowa-licensed pharmacists for criminal offenses, drug-dispensing errors and other violations. State records indicate that […]

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(The Center Square) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration took a step to add the opioid-like psychoactive compound 7-OH found in the kratom plant to the schedule of controlled substances.

This week in the nation’s capital, President Donald Trump signed a fentanyl reclassification act led by Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, Iowa legislators cheered the passing of a federal rescission bill through Congress and House members helped send a $832 billion defense appropriations bill through the GOP-led chamber. The Grassley-led HALT Act permanently reclassifies fentanyl-related substances […]

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Oelwein Police Officers served search warrants at two homes on the city’s southeast side and one home in the northeast quadrant Monday, June 3…