From the front lines

Posted on April 13, 2014 by Pharmaciststeve

I got this email today: Steve:   I just had to comment on that email. I directed a statewide poison center, two centers covered about 2.4 million citizens.   I worked for many years, but now retired… We could receive tens of thousands calls per year, about half of which were for pill ID’s. I […]

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If you extrapolate !

Posted on April 13, 2014 by Pharmaciststeve

With Guns, Suicide Is the Biggest Problem http://www.medpagetoday.com/MeetingCoverage/ACP/45229?xid=nl_mpt_DHE_2014-04-12&utm_content=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DailyHeadlines&utm_source=WC&eun=g578717d0r& From article: ORLANDO — Every day, 88 people die from firearm-related injury; two-thirds of those deaths are suicides, a high proportion of which are committed by seniors and individuals living in rural areas, researchers reported here. Cooke said isolation, combined with alcohol or other substance abuse and […]

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