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Consumer Reports warns of risks of buying medicine online http://www.komonews.com/news/consumer/Risks-of-buying-medicine-online-344146342.html?tab=video&c=y Almost 2 million Americans trying to save money buy medications online, according to a recent Consumer Reports survey. But government investigators have found that many rogue pharmacies peddle bad drugs online that can cause serious harm. Pharmacies that pretend to operate in other countries often […]

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6 Things That Will Surprise You In The DEA Drug Report Surprisingly, two of the eight states ( Indiana, W Virginia) that has no MJ/MMJ legislation … reportedly have some of worse addiction problems ? The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has released its annual National Drug Threat Assessment Summary – a kind of State of […]

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A medical mistake happens. Who pays the bill? https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/a-medical-mistake-happens-who-pays-the-bill/2015/11/09/9d4f6ee6-78d1-11e5-b9c1-f03c48c96ac2_story.html When Charles Thompson of Greenville, S.C., checked into the hospital one July morning in 2011, he expected a standard colonoscopy. He never anticipated how wrong things would go. Partway through, a doctor emerged from the operating room to tell Thompson’s wife, Ann, that there had been […]

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DEA: Mexican Cartels Increasing Heroin Availability In U.S., Overdose Deaths Surge http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/06/dea-mexican-cartels-increasing-heroin-availability-in-u-s-overdose-deaths-surge/ WASHINGTON, D.C. — Mexican transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) have significantly increased opium production and shifted their operations to expand heroin trafficking in recent years. The TCOs launched a concerted effort to make the illicit drug readily available to Americans as the number of heroin […]

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Pharmacies in the crosshairs: Prescription drug crime and law enforcement
 http://www.pharmacist.com/pharmacies-crosshairs-prescription-drug-crime-and-law-enforcement Challenges of Pain: Part 2 Michael Jackson, BSPharm, knows “the tremendous, overwhelming pressure” that pharmacists are under these days. He’s the executive vice president and CEO of the Florida Pharmacy Association in a state “above the curve” in dispensing and prescribing controlled substances.
 “You’ve […]

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DEA Chief Calls Medical Marijuana “a Joke,” But These 5 Studies Say Otherwise https://www.leafly.com/news/health/dea-chief-calls-medical-marijuana-a-joke-but-these-5-studies-say I started my morning by reading the following statement from DEA chief Chuck Rosenberg: “What really bothers me is the notion that marijuana is also medicinal — because it’s not. We can have an intellectually honest debate about whether we should […]

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DEA selects Pittsburgh as 1st pilot city for strategy to address drug abuse, violent crime http://www.wpxi.com/news/news/local/dea-chooses-pittsburgh-first-pilot-city-strategy-a/npKYj/ PITTSBURGH — The Drug Enforcement Administration held a news conference Tuesday to announce Pittsburgh as the first pilot city for a new strategy aimed at addressing prescription opioid abuse, heroin use and violent crime. According to a news release, […]

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Marijuana supporters petition White House to fire DEA chief http://thehill.com/regulation/administration/259706-marijuana-supporters-petition-white-house-to-fire-dea-chief Drug Enforcement Administration chief Chuck Rosenberg is facing pressure from pot advocates to step down after he called medical marijuana a “joke.” Nearly 10,000 medical marijuana supporters have signed a petition calling for Rosenberg to be replaced with a more pot-friendly DEA head. “President Obama […]

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