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Paying substance abuse treatment providers for results, not services, may lead to improved quality of care, according to the first published study of a novel performance-based contracting system implemented by the State of Delaware in 2002.

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Washington — Ongoing consumer complaints about misleading sales pitches for private Medicare health plans have spurred a powerful Senate committee to scrutinize their marketing practices and prompted calls for legislation. The problems have continued despite Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services efforts to curb abuses.

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Lawmakers have touted restrictions on sales of cold medicines containing ephedrine as a necessary price for preventing homegrown methamphetamine labs, but Texas officials say police aren’t following through on monitoring sales of medications that could be used to make meth.

The Austin American-Statesman reported Nov. 4 that Texas and federal law requires that buyers of drugs containing ephedrine and pseudoephedrine — which can be used to make meth — must sign a log detailing their purchase. The log is intended to prevent multiple purchases of the drug, but many police and sheriffs agencies now say they don’t have time to review the records, blaming the absence of a centralized database of the information.

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A crackdown on alcohol sales to minors is paying off in the U.K., according to government officials.

Reuters reported Oct. 11 that undercover agents found that underage buyers were able to obtain alcohol on about 15 percent of attempts in 2007, down from 20 percent in 2006 and 50 percent in 2004. Pubs and retail stores were among the 2,683 liquor outlets targeted by the Tackling Underage Sales of Alcohol Campaign.

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