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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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Feeding an addiction: Police deal with rise of crime connected to drug abuse http://cumberlink.com/news/local/closer_look/feeding-an-addiction-police-deal-with-rise-of-crime-connected/article_228f421a-8cf0-5c80-94b9-7564bdfe8ff6.html If you deal with the source of the problem… mental health issue of addictive personality disorder.. TREAT THE PTS WITH THE DISEASE… the reasons for the CRIME will be REDUCED or ELIMINATED. Of course, if there is less CRIME.. there is […]
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https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/RQPQCP7 USE THE ABOVE LINK TO GO DIRECTLY TO SURVEY AND SUBMIT Exit this survey Hospital Pain Care Survey Recently a group of U.S. senators proposed that Medicare no longer require hospitals to ask patients about the quality of their pain care in patient satisfaction surveys. Medicare uses a funding formula that rewards hospitals that […]
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This showed up on a closed chronic painer Face Book page.. I guess that this will show up under “suicide by gun” column on CDC’s published stats. It would appear that the doctor(s) involved in the DENIAL OF CARE of this patient will have no consequences for their actions and lack of actions. Of course, […]
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My Life – My Choice: Dying with Dignity “I feel a great deal of sorrow that I can’t be fixed… I don’t want to die, but I can’t live like this, I can’t live in pain.” In February 2015, Toronto resident, real estate broker and passionate dog-lover Kathy Wardle called long-time friend and ZoomerMedia producer […]
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Star DEA agent finds himself at center of sprawling probe as drug task force comes under scrunity http://www.theneworleansadvocate.com/news/15135428-125/star-dea-agent-finds-himself-at-center-of-sprawling-probe-as-drug-task-force-comes-under-scrunity The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration for years considered Chad Scott a golden boy among its special agents, a prolific narcotics officer who earned countless plaudits for the DEA’s New Orleans field division. Others knew him as a […]
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