The “killing” of the “American Dream” … Genocide .. American style ?

Posted on January 4, 2016 by Pharmaciststeve

The CDC is trying to limit chronic painers’ rights to have adequate therapy… there is a open comment period on their published GUIDELINES… there is only 8 days left to make a comment on this link http://www.regulations.gov/#!documentDetail;D=CDC-2015-0112-0001 This is one of the comments from that website… One of the CDC Comments:  Pain Kills: Docket CDC-2015-0112 […]

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While prescriptions are down statewide, overdose deaths (suicides ?) have not yet peaked

Posted on January 4, 2016 by Pharmaciststeve

Tennessee Painkiller Prescriptions Drop By 15 Percent Since Doctor Shopping Crackdown http://nashvillepublicradio.org/post/tennessee-painkiller-prescriptions-drop-15-percent-doctor-shopping-crackdown#stream/0 Tennessee doctors are prescribing far fewer high-powered narcotics than they were just a few years ago. State health officials believe that’s partly because physicians are now required to notify the state when they put patients on a regimen of painkillers. Since 2012, the […]

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Elder Impact

Posted on January 4, 2016 by Pharmaciststeve

Housing Tips and Advice from The National Aging in Place Council The Boomer’s Roadmap for Aging in Place: How to Prepare Today for your Senior Years Preventing Falls at Home Fall Prevention Tips for Seniors | A Home Design Guide Exercise & Physical Activity: Your Everyday Guide from the National Institute on Aging The Benefits […]

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that refusing to fill a prescription may provide greater value to the patient and the community than filling a profitable prescription

Posted on January 4, 2016 by Pharmaciststeve

Pharmacists touted as last line of defense against opioid addiction https://www.pharmacist.com/pharmacists-touted-last-line-defense-against-opioid-addiction#main-content January 04, 2016 At recent Prescription Drug Awareness Conferences in Pittsburgh, DEA called for pharmacists and soon-to-be pharmacy school graduates to tighten controls over prescription opioids. “You are often going to be the last line of defense for us,” said Gary Tuggle, the DEA […]

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Ken Mc Kim and Feel This Pain: S4E1 Acute Intermittent Porphyria

Posted on January 3, 2016 by Pharmaciststeve

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“I mean MMJ turns people’s lives around,”

Posted on January 3, 2016 by Pharmaciststeve

Mental Health Practitioner says marijuana helps symptoms of PTSD http://www.kob.com/article/stories/s4006201.shtml#.Vomc4VJDhj8 A local Adult Psychiatric and Mental Health Nurse Practitioner who treats PTSD has been pushing for years for the feds to essentially legalize medical marijuana. It’s legal here in New Mexico but the federal laws still muddys things for patients. “I mean it turns people’s […]

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Without weed, the agency would have to rely on demand for the enforcement of other drugs to justify their tall budget requests

Posted on January 3, 2016 by Pharmaciststeve

How the DEA Profits off the War on Drugs http://www.attn.com/stories/4898/how-dea-profits-from-war-on-drugs The Drug Enforcement Administration has a vested interest in the War on Drugs, the federal government’s decades-long mission to eradicate drug use in the U.S. Not only does it support the federal agency’s core goal — to “enforce the controlled substances laws and regulations of the United States” […]

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breaking the troubling cycle of drugs and drug-related violence.

Posted on January 2, 2016 by Pharmaciststeve

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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The CDC has “backed-off”..BUT.. have they “backed-down ” ?

Posted on January 2, 2016 by Pharmaciststeve

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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Guidelines… carry the weight of the LAW ?

Posted on January 2, 2016 by Pharmaciststeve

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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