What is more important ?

Posted on July 1, 2014 by Pharmaciststeve

http://www.medpagetoday.com/PublicHealthPolicy/PublicHealth/46594?isalert=1&uun=g578717d1671R5705800u&utm_source=breaking-news&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=breaking-news&xid=NL_breakingnews_2014-07-01 From the article: Overdose deaths from both prescription opioids and heroin continued to rise in 2011, the most recent year for which data were available, according to the CDC. While prescription opioid deaths followed a more than decade-long trend and increased about 2% to 16,917, heroin deaths jumped by 44% — from 3,036 in […]

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They took care of us.. will we take care of them ?

Posted on July 1, 2014 by Pharmaciststeve

Half of American Combat Soldiers in Chronic Pain Use Opioids http://americanlivewire.com/2014-06-30-half-of-american-combat-soldiers-in-chronic-pain-use-opioids/ From the article: Researchers at Walter Reed Army Hospital surveyed over 2,500 soldiers who had been deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, nearly half of whom reported combat injuries. The prevalence of chronic pain was much higher than the civilian population, with 44% of the […]

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Good/bad Karma for some ?

Posted on July 1, 2014 by Pharmaciststeve

                                                  This showed up in today’s mail.. courtesy of my national pharmacy association NCPA ( National Community Pharmacists Association.. It would seem that this Pharmacist got harassed by the PBM because […]

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