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Keeping chronically ill pt all stressed out and treated like a puppet ?
Posted on July 18, 2015 by Pharmaciststeve
Specialty Pharmacies Proliferate, Along With Questions http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/16/business/specialty-pharmacies-proliferate-along-with-questions.html?mwrsm=Facebook&_r=0 SINKING SPRING, Pa. — As the end of each month nears, Megan Short frets. Her 1-year-old daughter, Willow, cannot afford to miss even a single dose of a drug she takes daily to prevent her body from rejecting her transplanted heart. Because of stringent rules from her drug […]
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More statistics ..it isn’t what they say.. it is what they don’t say ?
Posted on July 17, 2015 by Pharmaciststeve
Government Says Big Pharma Kills More People Than All Illegal Drugs Combined http://theantimedia.org/big-pharma-kills-more-people-than-all-illegal-drugs/ HALF of all drug overdoses are contributed to legal medications… this article tends to skip over – or ignore – the fact that most people who OD.. do so on a cocktail of substances… including alcohol… So it appears that no matter […]
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It is all about the numbers to suspect guilt ?
Posted on July 17, 2015 by Pharmaciststeve
Federal agents search records, drug inventories at Martinsburg, WV pharmacy http://www.statejournal.com/story/29566069/federal-agents-search-records-drug-inventories-at-martinsburg-wv-pharmacy Including the long acting Oxycontin… Oxycodone has NINE DIFFERENT STRENGTHS… but according to this article the DEA only looked at the number of doses a pharmacy purchased… apparently of all strengths.. Another DEA fishing expedition ? Federal authorities have searched a Martinsburg pharmacy to […]
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More bad pt outcomes from bureaucrats practicing medicine ?
Posted on July 17, 2015 by Pharmaciststeve
Study: Opioid Overdoses Often Occur at Low Doses http://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2015/7/17/study-opioid-overdoses-often-occur-at-low-doses#commenting The state of Washington mandates Methadone for Medicaid pts… with full knowledge that they can expect 2 deaths per 1000 pts within the first two weeks of starting this medication. Once again, bureaucrats and politicians practicing medicine purely based on financial issues.. Methadone is the least […]
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Big companies being sued for colluding and trying to deny pt of care ?
Posted on July 16, 2015 by Pharmaciststeve
Compounding pharmacy states valid conspiracy claims against prescription benefit manager http://www.dailyreportingsuite.com/antitrust/news/compounding_pharmacy_states_valid_conspiracy_claims_against_prescription_benefit_manager Does this sound familiar … three companies that dominate a market… that have colluded to restrict trade ? The question has to be asked… why is three major drug wholesalers that dominate a market.. are allowed to restrict community pharmacies purchases of controlled meds […]
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More statistical lies ?
Posted on July 16, 2015 by Pharmaciststeve
Opioid Abuse in People with Chronic Back Pain http://hcpthink.com/mpanel_document/opioid-abuse-in-people-with-chronic-back-pain/ IMO.. this study was poorly designed with only 55 pts and lasted only six months… and chose pts with psychiatric disorders .. including depression and anxiety. Since the vast majority of chronic pain pts with poorly treated pain.. will experience depression and anxiety. I have to […]
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The DEA appears to “eat their own” ?
Posted on July 16, 2015 by Pharmaciststeve
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com ‘Playing army’: Military reservists with DEA jobs say agency bosses ridiculed their service http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/07/16/playing-army-military-reservists-with-dea-jobs-say-agency-bosses-ridiculed/ More than a dozen senior Drug Enforcement Administration agents who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan as military reservists claim their bosses within the law enforcement agency ridiculed their service, assigned them to jobs their war […]
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What is going to be their excuse for denial of care now ?
Posted on July 14, 2015 by Pharmaciststeve
A New Kind Of Brain Scan Can See Your Pain, Literally http://www.popsci.com/we-see-your-pain-literally?UuS7BYJAVL4daYY0.01 Nothing hurts Americans more than chronic pain. It’s our single biggest health problem, affecting the lives of 100 million adults–more than heart disease, cancer, and diabetes combined. And that figure, from a 2011 Institute of Medicine report, doesn’t even count kids in pain, […]
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Healthcare Deniers are multiplying like rabbits ?
Posted on July 13, 2015 by Pharmaciststeve
This came my way from one of my readers that saw this posted on another “health forum”. It would seem that “healthcare deniers” are multiplying like rabbits in perpetual heat.. As I have said before and what a representative of CVS Health told this pt… they leave it to the lead pharmacist to decide when […]
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