September is national suicide prevention month

40,000 people will commit suicide very year in the USA, including 22 veteran every day. ONE MILLION people ATTEMPT suicide every year.  

September is Chronic Pain Awareness Month

US retailers lose about 1.5% to shoplifting… the drug cartels lose abt 1% to the DEA’s enforcement actions… and we are winning the war after 45 yrs ?

For every ton of cocaine the DEA seized en route to the US, up to 100 more made it through undetected US retailers lose about 1.5% to shoplifting… the drug cartels lose abt 1% to the DEA’s enforcement actions… and we are winning the war after 45 yrs ?  

When pained lives are pushed to “end it all “

This is a comment that was made on this post on my blog Do some lives matter more than others ? IMO, this brings home the point as to the physical/mental desperation that some chronic painers have reached, who have been denied pain management or provided some “token doses” to treat their otherwise debilitating pain.  […]

Pharmacogenomics is the science that allows us to identify a patient’s response to drugs based on their genetic makeup.

https://youtu.be/fGjG_9EEeeA Pharmacogenomics is the science that allows us to identify a patient’s response to drugs based on their genetic makeup.

#CVS customer SHOT during robbery

Customer shot during robbery at DeKalb CVS http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/shots-fired-during-armed-cvs-robbery/nnXf8/ DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — DeKalb County police say they are searching for at least one person who opened fire during a robbery inside a CVS Pharmacy Thursday.   The incident happened at the location on 2586 Lawrenceville Highway near Frazier Road in Decatur around 9:15 a.m.   […]