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Massachusetts AG targets pill mills War on pill mills: Maura Healey targets rogue doctors fueling opioid abuse AG Puts docs, clinics on notice http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2015/04/war_on_pill_mills_maura_healey_targets_rogue_doctors_fueling Newly minted Attorney General Maura Healey is cracking down on doctors and “pill mill” clinics illegally prescribing the addictive narcotics that are fueling the state’s deadly outbreak of opiate overdoses. Calling […]

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Feds admit medical pot works on brain tumors — but they’re going after users anyway http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/04/feds-admit-medical-pot-works-on-brain-tumors-but-theyre-going-after-users-anyway/#.VSFnBrrrE6o.facebook In a  report issued by a U.S. government-funded research group tasked with studying drug abuse and addiction, researchers are admitting that marijuana is useful in killing off specific types of brain tumors. The report — coming from a government-backed  […]

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A tale of two killings: what happened when Idaho police shot a dog and a pregnant woman in one day http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/03/idaho-police-shootings-jeanetta-riley-justice-for-arfee?CMP=ema_565 Fourteen hours and 45 miles apart in rural Idaho, two stories began. A community campaign led to ‘justice for Arfee’ after a pet’s killing outside a coffee shop. But there is no justice yet […]

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Supreme Court: Providers Can’t Sue Over Low Medicaid Rates Court suggests providers are ‘incidental beneficiaries’ of Medicaid. Obamacare is basically an extension of Medicaid. According to this Supreme Court ruling.. it would appear that the Federal government does not have to pay healthcare providers enough for particular service(s) that will cover the cost of providing […]

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http://www.wesh.com/news/bills-working-way-through-congress-aim-to-correct-prescription-drug-problem/32184532 Video on website Bills working way through Congress aim to correct prescription drug problem DEA’s former associate chief counsel: Bills would be game-changers ORLANDO, Fla. —The problems WESH 2 News has uncovered with Florida’s prescription drug problem reach far beyond the Sunshine State. Roots of the issues causing many ill patients to be denied […]

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It has been almost 2 weeks – and counting … the news coverage of the airline pilot that committed suicide and took another 149 innocent lives with him as he flew a commercial airliner into the side of a mountain… This sort of  suicide/murder has only happened 3-4 times in the last THREE DECADES. ‘Talking […]

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Marion Man Sentenced for Illegally Handing Out Prescription Drugs Here is a interesting issue.. this Pharmacists “dispensed” FOUR TABLETS OF XANAX 2 MG and prescribing is OUTSIDE OF HIS SCOPE OF PRACTICE…but.. Pharmacists demanding that a pt accept lower doses or few doses per month and/or refusing to fill certain combination of medications – regardless […]

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http://www.weaverfuneralhome.net/obituaries-test-1/joshua-dwayne-hartsock This 35 y/o young man was dispensed/provided not the medication for his existing medication condition as diagnosed and prescribed by this his doctor…but wrongly dispensed a chemo agent… whose normal dose is EVERY SIX WEEKS for FOUR DOSES, but ended up taking this wrong medication daily for 20 days before the error was uncovered. […]

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State of Pain special Matt Grant  www.wesh.com  Channel 2 Orlando, FL mjgrant@hearst.com http://www.wesh.com/health/state-of-pain-special-part-1/32152120 http://www.wesh.com/health/state-of-pain-special-part-2/32151834 http://www.wesh.com/health/state-of-pain-special-part-3/32152080 Should everyone seeing this… send these links to their local NBC station- outside of the Orlando FL area –  and ask them why they have not bothered to look into the epidemic of denial of care of abt 1/3 of […]

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How Medical Tech Gave a Patient a Massive Overdose https://medium.com/backchannel/how-technology-led-a-hospital-to-give-a-patient-38-times-his-dosage-ded7b3688558 This is very long three part series of how healthcare professionals have become “lazy” with technology and how “alert fatigue” can be LETHAL… This is mostly hospital based issues, but.. it is common place no matter the healthcare setting … hospital, nursing home or community […]

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