Talk about your unintended consequences

Posted on October 7, 2015 by Pharmaciststeve

Opioid Prescriber Monitoring May Increase Overdose Deaths http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/836489 AVENTURA, Florida ― Surveillance of opioid prescribers, designed to prevent opioid overdose deaths, may actually be having the opposite effect, new research suggests.   Sonia Mendoza The qualitative study, aimed at assessing doctor-patient interactions after a prescription monitoring program (PMP) known as “I-STOP,” which was mandated by […]

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Promises sound good… until you check the real FACTS

Posted on October 7, 2015 by Pharmaciststeve

CVS/pharmacy Continues Commitment to Fight Drug Abuse, Now Sells No Prescription Necessary Opioid Drug Reversal Med in NJ http://mercerme.com/cvspharmacy-continues-commitment-to-fight-drug-abuse-now-sells-no-prescription-necessary-opioid-drug-reversal-med-in-nj/ CVS/pharmacy. (PRNewsFoto/CVS/pharmacy) CVS/pharmacy, the retail division of CVS Health, is reinforcing its longstanding commitment in the fight against the nationwide epidemic of prescription drug abuse with a number of efforts launching this past month. Most notably, CVS/pharmacy has […]

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chronic painers can now alleviate their pain & save healthcare system money ?

Posted on October 7, 2015 by Pharmaciststeve

California governor signs hard-won right-to-die legislation http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20151005/NEWS/310059996 California will become the fifth state to allow terminally ill patients to legally end their lives using doctor-prescribed drugs after Gov. Jerry Brown announced Monday he signed one of the most emotionally charged bills of the year. Brown, a lifelong Catholic and former Jesuit seminarian, announced he signed […]

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Domestic abuse victim… mentally unstable… abused again by our court system.

Posted on October 7, 2015 by Pharmaciststeve

http://www.wftv.com/news/news/local/video-shows-judge-berating-sentencing-domestic-vio/nnwwh/ SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. — Channel 9 has obtained video from a Seminole County courtroom where an emotional domestic violence victim was sentenced to three days in jail for failing to show up for her abuser’s trial.   During her contempt of court hearing in July, the woman told the judge she had been having […]

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