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The Other Side Of Pain: The Stress Of Living With Chronic Pain http://www.wilx.com/home/headlines/The-Other-Side-Of-Pain-The-Stress-Of-Living-With-Chronic-Pain-371967882.html Lansing, MI – It’s a story you’ll hear across Mid-Michigan and across the country. “I originally hurt my back at work and they told me it was a sprain, and I kind of went downhill after that,” says Shirley. Downhill into […]
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Chronic Pain Patients Lobby For ‘Bill Of Rights’ http://mtpr.org/post/chronic-pain-patients-lobby-bill-rights#stream/0 Today state lawmakers heard from chronic pain patients who want to reform Montana’s policy regarding access to pain medications like opioids. Casey Brock from Glendive and Terri Andersen from Hamilton call the reform ‘The Montana Pain Patients’ Bill of Rights.” According to Movement 101 physiotherapy, chronic […]
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Amid tears, Gov. Charlie Baker signs landmark opioid bill into law http://www.masslive.com/politics/index.ssf/2016/03/amid_tears_gov_charlie_baker_s.html I wonder if Gov Baker will shed any tears as those in chronic pain start getting denied their medically necessary medications and start committing suicides ? Trying to save the few from themselves while leaving the many to fend for themselves ? BOSTON […]
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The End of Prescriptions as We Know Them in New York nytimes.com/2016/03/15/nyregion/new-york-to-discard-prescription-pads-and-doctors-handwriting-in-digital-shift.html?_r=0 One morning this month, Silvia Cota, a nurse supervisor in the emergency room at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan, gathered her nurses together in a huddle to prepare them for the future. “It really is not a complicated thing,” Ms. Cota told them, […]
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Judge: DEA should not scare employees away from defense http://www.hastingstribune.com/judge-dea-should-not-scare-employees-away-from-defense/article_85f5c615-cd53-59b1-ada5-6a254d39fc02.html NEW YORK (AP) — A judge says he’d be troubled if the Drug Enforcement Administration warned employees not to cooperate with defense lawyers after two DEA employees were arrested. Federal Judge Paul Gardephe asked prosecutors Monday to see if it’s true. An ex-DEA supervisory agent […]
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