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Petition To Fire DEA Head Chuck Rosenberg Surpasses 75,000 Signatures http://www.theweedblog.com/petition-to-fire-dea-head-chuck-rosenberg-surpasses-75000-signatures/ DEA head Chuck Rosenberg recently made some insensitive, unscientific comments about medical marijuana that demonstrated just how little compassion he has for suffering patients in this country. Below are Chuck Rosenberg’s comments, via the Huffington Post: “What really bothers me is the notion that marijuana […]

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Battle to curb obesity is failing, CDC reports http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20151112/NEWS/151119959?utm_source=modernhealthcare&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20151112-NEWS-151119959&utm_campaign=dose Just when a <href=”http: jama.jamanetwork.com=”” article.aspx?articleid=”2434665″”>JAMA editorial this September saw a “glimmer of hope” that U.S. obesity (and diabetes) rates had leveled off, a new survey slashed those hopes. The government Thursday released data that show obesity continuing to creep upward with women having higher rates […]

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America’s poorest white town: abandoned by coal, swallowed by drugs In the first of a series of dispatches from the US’s poorest communities, we visit Beattyville, Kentucky, blighted by a lack of jobs and addiction to painkillers http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/nov/12/beattyville-kentucky-and-americas-poorest-towns Karen Jennings patted her heavily made up face, put on a sardonic smile and said she thought […]

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Sudden, Unexpected Death in Chronic Pain Patients why? http://dailyhealthrecords.com/2015/10/29/sudden-unexpected-death-in-chronic-pain-patients-why/?fdx_switcher=true Severe pain, independent of medical therapy, may cause sudden, unexpected death. Cardiac arrest is the cause, and practitioners need to know how to spot a high-risk patient. Sudden, unexpected death may occur in a severe, chronic pain patient, and the terminal event may be unrelated to […]

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Dookhan Pleads Guilty, Gets 3-5 Years In Prison http://badchemistry.wbur.org/2013/11/22/dookhan-plea-prison Disgraced former state chemist Annie Dookhan is now behind bars, after she pleaded guilty Friday to all 27 counts against her related to the drug lab crisis. Dookhan showed little emotion and spoke softly as she pleaded guilty. After accepting Dookhan’s plea, Judge Carol Ball sentenced […]

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Costly, and often deadly, medical errors prompt calls for hospitals to accept fault There’s no hard-and-fast rule for how hospitals handle cost of care when patients have bad outcomes and fault is disputed. http://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/news/costly-and-often-deadly-medical-errors-prompt-calls-hospitals-accept-fault When Charles Thompson checked into the hospital one July morning in 2011, he expected a standard colonoscopy. He never anticipated how […]

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Thousands Demand Firing Of DEA Chief After He Calls Medical Marijuana A ‘Joke’ http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/thousands-demand-firing-of-dea-chief-after-he-calls-medical-marijuana-a-joke/ar-BBmWl48 A petition calling for President Barack Obama to fire acting Drug Enforcement Administration chief Chuck Rosenberg over his remarks on medical marijuana had gathered over 28,000 signatures, by Thursday afternoon.  Rosenberg, a former FBI official who was tapped to lead the […]

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DEA: Mexican cartels are taking over https://personalliberty.com/dea-mexican-cartels-are-taking-over/ As the Obama administration continues with its weak border policies, the Drug Enforcement Administration is warning that one of the biggest criminal threats Americans face is Mexican traffickers moving freely across the southern border. That Mexican cartels are moving huge amounts of drugs across the southern border certainly […]

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Feds allege doctor ran deadly ‘pain pill mill’ http://www.9news.com/story/local/2013/08/26/1874846/ CRAIG, Colo. – The 9Wants to Know investigators have learned the feds arrested a well-known doctor who they allege has been over prescribing prescription pain medication that resulted in two patient deaths and many other patients getting medication to feed their addictions. A grand jury has […]

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