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McGreevey speaks about drug epidemic in N.J. jails If law enforcement can’t control substance abuse within a prison system.. what makes them believe that they can do any better in the general population ? http://www.dailyrecord.com/story/news/crime/morris-county/2015/04/30/mcgreevey-speaks-drug-epidemic-nj-jails/26658473/ MORRISTOWN – Doctors, law enforcement, and former New Jersey Governor James McGreevey gathered at the Morris County Correctional Facility Thursday […]

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Ohio Sees Record High Heroin Overdose Deaths http://www.wtrf.com/story/28943697/ohio-sees-record-high-heroin-overdose-deaths This is the second press release in a couple of days where I have noticed that the term “accidental drug overdose” seems to have been removed the media’s “talking points”… must have been a memo sent out… and not to the general public. It has always been […]

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State: More Than 1,000 Died Of Opioid-Related Overdoses In 2014 http://www.wbur.org/2015/04/28/state-2014-overdose-deaths More than 1,000 people in Massachusetts died of opioid-related overdoses last year, according to an estimate made public by state health officials on Tuesday. That’s a 33 percent jump over 2012 figures. The Massachusetts Department of Public Health says there were 600 confirmed opioid-related […]

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MyFoxAL.com – FOX6 WBRC Birmingham, AL DEA agent says Alabamians should be outraged by deaths from drug overdoses http://www.myfoxal.com/story/28934056/dea-agent-says-alabamians-should-be-outraged-by-increasing-heroin-spice-prescription-drug-deaths MONTGOMERY, AL (WBRC) – On Wednesday in Montgomery, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama, George Beck, called a meeting to discuss the abuse of heroin, spice and prescription drugs and how to combat the […]

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1-IMG_7765  <— video link This is a video sent to me by a prescriber friend… you be the judge … how quickly this Walgreen’s Pharmacist was quick to judge this Rx and this pt’s needs for a opiate.. and quickly that decision appears to do a 180 turn..

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In February 2012, a jury returned a verdict of $167,730,488.00 in Chopourian v. Catholic Healthcare West (2012, United States District Court, Eastern District of California). This case is believed to be the largest single-plaintiff employment verdict in United States history. Plaintiff, Ani Chopourian, was terminated from her position as a surgical physicians’ assistant in the […]

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DEA Agent Speaks Out: We Were Told Not to Enforce Drug Laws In Rich Communities http://thefreethoughtproject.com/dea-agent-drug-laws-intentionally-rich-communities/#0WfUQRkiwdf7ivtq.99 “‘You know, if we go out there and start messing with those folks, they know judges, they know lawyers, they know politicians. You start locking their kids up; somebody’s going to jerk our chain.’ He said, ‘they’re going to […]

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Injured patients can’t get their painkillers; an unexpected consequence of pill mill crackdown http://www.wptv.com/money/consumer/injured-patients-cant-get-their-painkillers-an-unexpected-consequence-of-pill-mill-crackdown WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – The pill mill crackdown is cutting overdose deaths, but it’s also having unintended consequences for patients in pain. Injured patients tell the Consumer Watchdog they can’t get their medication because pharmacy after pharmacy turned them away. […]

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Equivalent to doxing your doc? California to decide limits of access to prescription database http://medcitynews.com/2015/04/equivalent-doctor-doxing-california-decide-limits-access-prescription-database/ The case against Dr. Alwin Lewis started with a patient’s complaint about his unorthodox diet plan. But it landed at the California Supreme Court with a much broader issue at stake: Whether regulators should have unrestricted access to a state […]

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Judge: Feds owe trucking company nothing over DEA informant murder (update) http://blog.chron.com/narcoconfidential/2015/04/judge-feds-owe-trucking-company-nothing-over-dea-informant-murder/#17365101=0 A Houston-based federal judge ruled that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration does not owe the owner of a small Texas trucking company anything, not even the cost of repairing the bullet holes to a tractor-trailer truck that the agency used without his permission […]

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