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Drug Company CEO Martin Shkreli Who Raised AIDS Medication Price 5,000% Arrested http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2015/12/17/drug-company-ceo-who-raised-aids-medication-price-5000-martin-shkreli-arrested/   Our government couldn’t find anything wrong with Shkreli increasing the price of a particular medication… they had to find something to drag him thru the “legal mud” … bureaucrats are decrying the price increase because a certain segment of our population […]

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Nearly 200 images released by US military depict Bush-era detainee abuse http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/05/us-military-bush-era-detainee-abuse-photos-released-pentagon-iraq-afghanistan-guantanamo-bay How many chronic pain pts have contacted the ACLU about being denied care/abused by our medical and judicial system ? Is the alleged abuse of foreign terrorists that have murdered our citizens and killed our soldiers more worthy of expending resources  over seeking […]

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How Michelle Watt Death Same As Robin Williams http://www.latesthealthnews.co/how-michelle-watt-death-same-as-robin-williams/ “Robin Williams didn’t die from suicide. When people die from cancer, their cause of death can be various horrible things – seizure, stroke, pneumonia – and when someone dies after battling cancer, and people ask “How did they die?”, you never hear anyone say “pulmonary embolism”, […]

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What do the candidates propose to do about prescription drug abuse? http://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/What-do-the-candidates-propose-to-do-about-6810128.php With New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary coming up on Tuesday, you may be surprised to learn that the issue most concerning the Granite State’s voters isn’t jobs, national security or immigration. It’s drug abuse.  A prescription drug epidemic — mainly driven by the wide […]

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Law enforcement take down methamphetamine ring in Scott County, net 10 arrests http://www.theindychannel.com/news/local-news/law-enforcement-take-down-methamphetamine-ring-in-scott-county SCOTT COUNTY, Ind. — A law enforcement coalition took down a methamphetamine and oxymorphone ring Friday morning in Scott County, where a recent HIV outbreak contributed to epidemic levels in southern Indiana. The takedown was six months in the making, and involved […]

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http://investorplace.com/2016/02/cvs-target-tgt/#.VrVEyub25j8 CVS (CVS) has opened its first pharmacies inside of Target (TGT) stores. The new CVS pharmacies within Target locations are located in the Charlotte, North Carolina market. The pharmacies are branded as CVS and replace the retailer’s own pharmacies that were in the area. Here is where the new pharmacies inside of Target locations are located. Hickory […]

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Insurers Wrestle With Costs, Utility of Genetic Tests http://www.medpagetoday.com/Genetics/GeneticTesting/55987?xid=nl_mpt_DHE_2016-02-04&eun=g578717d0r Pennsylvania-based Independence Blue Cross’ announcement that it will cover a complex type of genetic testing for some cancer patients thrusts the insurer into an ongoing debate about how to handle an increasing array of these expensive tests. Independence — with its approximately 3 million members — […]

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Study Shows That Alcohol, Not Marijuana Is The Major “Gateway Drug” http://dailyhealthtime.co/study-shows-that-alcohol-not-marijuana-is-the-major-gateway-drug/ A recent study conducted by researchers at the University of Florida has shown that alcohol is far more of a “gateway drug” than marijuana is. The study concluded that: Results from the Guttman scale indicated that alcohol represented the “gateway” drug, leading to […]

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FDA Unveils Sweeping Changes to Opioid Policies http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/858411?nlid=99105_3901&src=wnl_newsalrt_160204_MSCPEDIT&uac=75309AG&impID=980959&faf=1 In response to the ongoing opioid abuse epidemic, top officials at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today announced plans to reassess the agency’s approach to opioid medications. “We are determined to help defeat this epidemic through a science-based and continuously evolving approach,” Robert Califf, MD, […]

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OfficialNotification click on link above to read all 56 pages The DEA gets to keep/sell all of the assets they seize … and abt 85% of the assets seized there is never charges filed nor conviction made.. and most people will get little – to nothing – of their assets returned.

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