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All healthcare professionals, PBM (Prescription Benefit Managers – Express Scripts) and insurance companies and other are all focused on pt compliance with their medications. Currently and historically, pt on-going compliance has been in the 30% range. Many healthcare professionals seem to like to bend the truth with talking/dealing with chronic pain pts or pts with […]
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Indiana allows needle exchange program to stem HIV outbreak http://www.whas11.com/story/news/local/indiana/2015/03/26/indiana-allows-needle-exchange-program-to-stem-hiv-outbreak/70488392/ Yesterday Gov Pence said NO NEEDLE EXCHANGE PROGRAM ! In this video he assures people that test positive for HIV.. that they will able to sign up for Indiana Medicaid program and treatment. Estimated LIFE TIME cost to treat a single HIV pt is > […]
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Government report: DEA agents had sex parties with prostitutes http://www.cbsnews.com/news/government-report-dea-agents-had-sex-parties-with-prostitutes/ Several agents from the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) engaged in “sex parties” with prostitutes paid for by Colombian drug cartels, according to a report by the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General released Thursday. Furthermore, the report’s authors say the full extent of the […]
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Facing budget pressures, the DEA is pulling up less weed http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/03/24/facing-budget-pressures-the-dea-is-pulling-up-less-weed/?tid=sm_tw By Christopher Ingraham March 24 The number of marijuana plants seized and destroyed by the Drug Enforcement Administration fell slightly last year and remained sharply lower than the record numbers seen at the dawn of the Obama administration. According to the DEA’s records, 4.3 […]
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