Bureaucrats scratching their heads ?

Posted on May 17, 2014 by Pharmaciststeve

Heroin’s Toll Heroin surges as Kentucky cracks down on pain pills http://www.courier-journal.com/longform/news/investigations/2014/05/16/heroin-surges-kentucky-cracks-pain-pills/9123285/ From the article: Jolly’s death is part of a skyrocketing heroin epidemic devastating families across Kentucky — fueled by a state crackdown on prescription pill abuse that has addicts turning to the illegal street drug to find the same blissful high. Heroin is […]

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The facts are really not the facts ?

Posted on May 17, 2014 by Pharmaciststeve

Obtaining adequate data to determine causes of opioid-related overdose deaths. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21668762# Current data collected by medical examiners and coroners are incomplete and inadequate to evaluate the factors that lead to fatalities involving prescription opioids Determining cause of death is critically important. Two methods are proposed to improve consistency and accuracy in the collection and analysis of […]

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