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Traveling DEA Exhibit “Drugs: Costs & Consequences” Debuts in Virginia http://www.cadca.org/resources/traveling-dea-exhibit-drugs-costs-consequences-debuts-virginia The national touring exhibit developed by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the DEA Educational Foundation, “Drugs: Costs and Consequences,” formerly known as “Target America,” opens Jan. 12, at 750 Miller Drive, SE, Suite F-1 in Leesburg, Va., and will be open Tuesdays through Saturdays […]

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There has been almost 1600 comments on this… many of them from the anti-opiate groups.. who can’t believe that anyone else pain would be greater than their pain from losing a loved from having the mental health disease of addictive personality disorder and they have OD’d or committed suicide using opiates and/or some other substances.  […]

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This is a email that showed up in my inbox.. it would appear that this pt’s particular insurance company has taken upon themselves to send out the CDC dosing guidelines to prescribers… “suggesting” that “if appropriate” the opiate dose of their pts should be reduced.  It is interesting that the CDC guidelines have not even […]

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The Dangerous Game of Forced Opioid Reduction http://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2015/9/2/the-inhumane-and-dangerous-game-of-forced-opioid-reduction#commenting By Forest Tennant, MD, Guest Columnist A colleague who I highly respect just informed me of a woman with intractable angina who had multiple, inserted coronary splints and required a high daily dose of morphine. Without warning, her insurance company arbitrarily decided she did not need opioids. […]

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