Pregnant women with addictions need healthcare, not handcuffs

Posted on April 12, 2016 by Pharmaciststeve

Pregnant women with addictions need healthcare, not handcuffs Tennessee learned the hard way, with its disastrous fetal assault law. The other states considering punishing addicted mothers should heed its example http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/12/pregnant-women-addiction-healthcare-not-handcuffs?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+Version+CB+header+MPU&utm_term=166734&subid=13529055&CMP=ema_565 Every 19 minutes, a baby is born in America to a mother who struggles with opiate addiction, a percentage that has soared in the […]

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A vote for Kasich could be like shooting yourself in the foot ?

Posted on April 12, 2016 by Pharmaciststeve

Kasich proposes to license pharmacy technicians, limit painkillers http://www.wlwt.com/news/kasich-proposes-to-license-pharmacy-technicians-limit-painkillers/38986646 Pharmacy technicians were responsible for a third of about 140 pharmacy drug thefts over the past three years, said Steven Schierholt, the Ohio Pharmacy Board’s executive director. Ohio is one of only eight states that doesn’t license the technicians, he said. The state estimates about 42,000 […]

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Freedom of speech… doesn’t apply if you are a college student ?

Posted on April 12, 2016 by Pharmaciststeve

Medical student’s Facebook blast brings sanctions abqjournal.com/754816/news/unm-med-student-says-he-was-punished-for-obama-facebook-post.html A University of New Mexico medical student says in a federal lawsuit that school officials imposed sanctions on him and forced him to write a letter of apology after he posted a message on Facebook equating abortion to genocide and used profanity in criticizing President Barack Obama’s re-election […]

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Making “addicts” functioning on Suboxone is better than any other opiate ?

Posted on April 12, 2016 by Pharmaciststeve

Opioid Epidemic Spurs Rethink on Medication and Addiction Use of medication-assisted treatment is increasing http://www.medpagetoday.com/Psychiatry/Addictions/57265?xid=nl_mpt_DHE_2016-04-11&eun=g578717d0r Most addicts after a couple of years no longer get “high”… they  use the term “dope sick” to refer to cold turkey withdrawal and their existence becomes centered around warding off becoming “dope sick”..  In the process of realizing that […]

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