Goodbye acetyl Fentanyl…. hello furanyl Fentanyl ?

Posted on May 7, 2016 by Pharmaciststeve

What the DEA Doesn’t Know Exists Can Definitely Kill You https://www.propublica.org/article/srsly-what-the-dea-doesnt-know-exists-can-definitely-kill-you Made in Chi—, Er, Chemically Tweaked in China Remember that time you told your rowdy niece Elsa (her parents are “Frozen” nuts) to stop banging that pot, only to have her switch to banging a pan instead? That’s kind of like what a STAT […]

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Why America Can’t Quit the Drug War

Posted on May 7, 2016 by Pharmaciststeve

Why America Can’t Quit the Drug War After 45 years, more than $1 trillion wasted, and the creation of the world’s largest prison system, America still lacks the political will to change its failed drug policy Forty-five years later, America is still grappling with the dark origin of the Drug War, launched in 1971 by […]

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Is there little doubt why DEA agents are targeting prescribers ?

Posted on May 7, 2016 by Pharmaciststeve

DEA agent says enforcement, education, rehabilitation keys to solving drug problems –  http://pbcommercial.com/news/local/dea-agent-says-enforcement-education-rehabilitation-keys-solving-drug-problems#sthash.1RccFrJu.dpuf cartel members took a man and used a knife to slice every part of his body but they didn’t kill him,” he said. “They they staked him to the ground and let the buzzards eat him.” The Jefferson County Drug Court celebrated […]

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THOUSANDS of CPP TOSSED TO THE STREET

Posted on May 7, 2016 by Pharmaciststeve

‘What are we supposed to do?’ opioid patients ask after feds shut down doctor http://www.buffalonews.com/city-region/what-are-we-supposed-to-do-opioid-patients-ask-after-feds-shut-down-doctor-20160505 Senator Chas Schumer and 27 from the House of Representatives from New York https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Representatives_from_New_York  are up for reelection this Nov.  These are the people who fund and oversee the DEA… The BUCK STOPS WITH THEM…  Don’t send them a letter, […]

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Another NON-ISSUE EPIDEMIC ?.. only 9.5% of all fatalities in the country

Posted on May 7, 2016 by Pharmaciststeve

About that Johns Hopkins study on medical errors (podcast) Interview_with_Frank_Federico_-_Institute_for_Healthcare_Improvement.mp3 By now, you’ve probably heard about the Johns Hopkins study, published in BMJ, that called medical errors the third leading cause of death in the U.S. That works out to slightly more than 250,000 unnecessary deaths annually, or about 9.5 percent of all fatalities in […]

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