Maine Legislature ramps up opiophobic fears and regulations

Posted on May 4, 2016 by Pharmaciststeve

Maine to Require Providers Use E-Prescribing and Check Prescription Monitoring Data for Opioids, Benzodiazepine; Law Includes New Limits for Opioid Prescribing Prescribers and dispensers in Maine will be required to check prescription monitoring information when prescribing and dispensing a benzodiazepine or an opioid medication under “An Act To Prevent Opiate Abuse by Strengthening the Controlled […]

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Oregon’s Senator Wyden likes CDC’s plan to cut opiates to chronic painers ?

Posted on May 4, 2016 by Pharmaciststeve

Senator Raises Red Flags About Conflicts of Interest With Federal Pain Panel http://www.painmedicinenews.com/Policy-Management/Article/04-16/Senator-Raises-Red-Flags-About-Conflicts-of-Interest-With-Federal-Pain-Panel/35772/ses=ogst US SENATOR RON WYDEN is UP FOR RE-ELECTION THIS NOV..  He has been in Congress since JAN 1981.  For you counting that is THIRTY SIX YEARS when this term is up…  It would appear that Senator Wyden.. supports the CDC’s reduction of […]

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Another opiophobic voice .. now sharing his views with our “future Pharmacists” ?

Posted on May 4, 2016 by Pharmaciststeve

From a pharmacist: How our policies enable the opioid addiction epidemic https://www.minnpost.com/community-voices/2016/05/pharmacist-how-our-policies-enable-opioid-addiction-epidemic#comment-245092 Clearly our laws and health insurances as designed contribute to the misuse of opioid medications. Lowell J. Anderson The route to addiction often begins with an opioid prescription for managing pain; there are more than 257 million opioid prescriptions written each year. Not […]

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