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Mail Order Prescriptions Not Always Cheaper Mail Order Prescriptions Not Always Cheaper http://www.wfmynews2.com/news/local/2-wants-to-know/mail-order-prescriptions-not-always-cheaper/131446853 The insurance paperwork is piling up for Curt Burshem One of his family members has a kidney disorder. And life without this pill would be very difficult. Your kidneys could shut down, you could be on a kidney machine the rest of […]

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Drug plan hit with backlash http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/275918-drug-plan-hit-with-backlash The Obama administration’s aggressive move to rein in the cost of prescription drugs in Medicare has triggered a backlash, with some advocates warning the plan goes too far. The administration is pursuing a pilot program that could squeeze the margins for doctors that prescribe high-cost drugs, potentially saving the […]

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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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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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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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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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In the last Presidential election there was 235 million people in the USA of voting age… and there was 129 million votes cast… with 5 million between the winner and the loser… is it more than a coincident that the number of people that didn’t vote is the same number of estimated chronic pain pts […]

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Voters need to look at the larger picture. There are 435 Representatives and 33-34 Senators that will be up for re-election and/or open offices because the current incumbent is retiring. We need to look back as to which “party” was in control when certain major pieces of legislation has been passed.. The Harrison Narcotic Act […]

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I copied this post from another page. Wanted — Chronic pain patients (particularly but not exclusively in Tennessee) who have had difficulty getting physicians to continue opioid medications on which they have been stable and well managed for at least six months. I will pass your stories to two doctors who are working with a […]

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Tackling the obesity epidemic by treating sugar addiction like drug abuse https://drugstorenewsce.com/editorial-news-item/10/9198 By Vivian Lee 04/07/2016 With obesity rates on the rise worldwide and excess sugar consumption considered a direct contributor, the search has been on for treatments to reverse the trend. Now a world-first study led by Queensland University of Technology (QUT) may have […]

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