CDC instructed doctors to stop routine testing of pain patients for marijuana use

Posted on March 26, 2016 by Pharmaciststeve

As opioid epidemic rages, CDC tells doctors: ignore marijuana blog.sfgate.com/smellthetruth/2016/03/18/as-opioid-epidemic-rages-cdc-tells-doctors-ignore-marijuana/ Faced with an FDA-manufactured opioid painkiller overdose epidemic, the Centers for Disease Control has revised its guidelines to avoid something possibly making the epidemic worse — the routine screening of opioid users for marijuana use. Today, the CDC instructed doctors to stop routine testing of […]

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“Calling these (overdoses) accidents is sweeping it under the rug”

Posted on March 26, 2016 by Pharmaciststeve

Local coroners react to Lycoming County coroner’s decision to rule heroin overdose deaths homicides http://thetimes-tribune.com/news/local-coroners-react-to-lycoming-county-coroner-s-decision-to-rule-heroin-overdose-deaths-homicides-1.2023307 News that a coroner in Lycoming County has begun ruling heroin overdoses as homicides drew skepticism from local coroners. Lycoming County Coroner Charles Kiessling Jr. had been marking overdose deaths as accidental, which he called standard practice, but said he’s […]

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