Veterans Admin now fighting DEPENDENCE … which is not ADDICTION !

Posted on August 18, 2015 by Pharmaciststeve

The VA’s Attempt To Fight Opioid Dependence Leaves Pain Patients Cut Off http://taskandpurpose.com/the-vas-attempt-to-fight-opioid-dependence-leaves-pain-patients-cut-off/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_content=tp-facebook&utm_campaign=culture After the Department of Veterans Affairs scaled back its prescriptions of opioids, many patients were left to deal with their chronic pain by themselves. Anyone who has ruck marched with a heavy pack, performed a parachute landing fall out of a C-130 […]

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That’s because it’s a bait-and-switch. It’s promoted as a treatment-first program, but the details lean heavily toward enforcement and incarceration.

Posted on August 18, 2015 by Pharmaciststeve

The problem with the White House’s heroin program http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/problem-the-white-houses-heroin-program With the country in the grips of a great American heroin relapse, the White House on Monday announced a new strategy to subdue the epidemic, pairing law enforcement officials with public health workers and deploying them in 15 states rife with opioid addicts. The program, funded […]

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Prohibition is working so well ?

Posted on August 18, 2015 by Pharmaciststeve

Investigators: 3 dead after 18 heroin overdose within 24 hours in Washington County http://www.wpxi.com/news/news/local/crews-respond-least-12-overdoses-washington-county/nnLNc/ WASHINGTON COUNTY, Pa. — Three of 18 people who overdosed on heroin  Sunday into Monday in Washington County died, investigators said.  The cases were reported in several areas, including Donora, Amwell, Canonsburg, Houston and Washington. Seventeen of the 18 cases occurred […]

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when our judicial system determines if a drug can have clinical trials ?

Posted on August 18, 2015 by Pharmaciststeve

Insys Therapeutics, Inc. Files Citizen Petition With the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to Reschedule Its Synthetic Pharmaceutical Cannabidiol (CBD) This may be interesting to see how protective the DEA is of components of MJ being sold as a Rx drug… when this particular component is already available as a Rx med.. just in a different […]

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Careful how deep you dig that hole

Posted on August 18, 2015 by Pharmaciststeve

MarkeTouch Media Acquires Licenses for Walgreen Co.’s Prescription Alignment Patents Now the three major chain pharmacies have announced similar programs to focus on allowing pts to sync all their medications so that they only have to make one trip a month to pick up all their medications.  While they are professing that it will help […]

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