Barnes to Speak at 2023 Rx Summit

Michael C. Barnes, Esq., Principal Attorney at Sequel Legal, will speak and moderate in-person at the 2023 Rx Drug Abuse & Heroin Summit in Atlanta, Georgia, April 10-13. Barnes will participate in the following educational programs: April 10: Moderating the “Designing, Implementing, and Evaluating Large-Scale Stigma Reduction Campaigns” session, which will focus on how to […]

Barnes to Speak at Rx Summit

Michael C. Barnes, Esq., Principal Attorney at Sequel Legal, will speak and moderate in-person at the 2022 Rx Drug Abuse & Heroin Summit in Atlanta, Georgia, April 18-20. Barnes will participate in the following educational programs: April 18: Opioid Settlement: Protecting and Optimizing Proceeds. Barnes will moderate and speak during this session, which will provide […]

NJ.com Publishes Worthy Op-Ed on Insurance Coverage of Marijuana

Today, the Star-Ledger (NJ.com) published an op-ed by Sequel Legal Principal Attorney Stacey Worthy discussing mandatory insurance coverage of marijuana products. As counsel to Aimed Alliance, Worthy explains that requiring coverage of non-FDA-approved marijuana products could do more harm than good. Some patients may look to marijuana to treat complex medical conditions, yet non-FDA-approved products […]

Emergency Responses to Substance Misuse, Mental Illness

Michael C. Barnes, JD spoke today at the Choctaw Nation Health Services Authority Conference in Durant, Oklahoma. Mr. Barnes’ presentation, “Compassion and Common Sense: Emergency Responses to Substance Abuse and Mental Illness,” provided information on the nation’s overdose crisis and delved into some of the major initiatives that have been undertaken at the federal and […]

Barnes Presents on Federal Law, Regulation, Enforcement, and Impacts on Pain Management at ASPMN

On September 19, 2019, Michael C. Barnes, JD presented alongside Wade Delk, Government Affairs Director of the American Society for Pain Management Nursing (ASPMN), and Marsha Stanton, Ph.D., R.N., former president of ASPMN, at ASPMN’s 29th annual conference in Portland, Oregon. Their presentation, titled “Trends in Federal Law, Regulation, and Enforcement, and Their Impacts on […]