Might as well put a “RED A” on their foreheads ?

Posted on June 12, 2016 by Pharmaciststeve

Former patients of Dr. Frank Lazzerini worry they are stigmatized http://www.cantonrep.com/news/20160612/former-patients-of-dr-frank-lazzerini-worry-they-are-stigmatized/?Start=1 The BUREAUCRATS are converting the doctor’s medical records to CD’s at the rate of 30/month.. it is not unusual for a prescriber to have 2500 pts… so some of the pts of this practice may have to weight SEVEN YEARS – OR MORE –  […]

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100 yrs of progress since our country’s “PROHIBITIONIST PEROID”

Posted on June 12, 2016 by Pharmaciststeve

This was “state of the art” in personal transportation         This was “state of the art” in air travel         This is “state of the art” in home entertainment   Certain groups still being discriminated against and fighting for equality In 1914 our Democratically controlled Congress passed and signed […]

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CALLING ALL CHRONIC PAIN PATIENTS

Posted on June 12, 2016 by Pharmaciststeve

CALLING ALL CHRONIC PAIN PATIENTS – On June 20th, Dr. Lynn Webster, former President of the American Pain Foundation, author of The Painful Truth, will be in Tampa to put the finishing touches on his documentary airing this Fall. Join us for a Rally in Tampa on JUNE 20TH FROM 4-7 PM. Location to be […]

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Treating ADDICTION… a FOR PROFIT GROWTH INDUSTRY ?

Posted on June 11, 2016 by Pharmaciststeve

Investors See Big Opportunities In Opioid Addiction Treatment http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/06/10/480663056/investors-see-big-opportunities-in-opioid-addiction-treatment The first time Ray Tamasi got hit up by an investor, it was kind of out of the blue. “This guy called me up,” says Tamasi, president of Gosnold on Cape Cod, an addiction treatment center with seven sites in Massachusetts. “The guy” represented a group […]

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Shouldn’t the FDA being advised by only those who know what the hell they are talking about ?

Posted on June 11, 2016 by Pharmaciststeve

Nothing like a FDA advisory committee member putting in his “two cents” .. whose background has little/nothing to do with opiates/chronic pain “It’s not any worse than other extended-release opioids on the market, but if we don’t start to re-think how we approve and regulate opiates, then we will never really change the problems we […]

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AMA abandoning the treatment of chronic pain unless you are a nursing home pt ?

Posted on June 11, 2016 by Pharmaciststeve

Opioids to Transgender: AMA Agenda Promises Heated Debate http://www.medpagetoday.com/MeetingCoverage/AMA/58434?xid=nl_mpt_DHE_2016-06-11&eun=g578717d0r CHICAGO — The American Medical Association will open its annual House of Delegates meeting here Saturday and its agenda highlights many of the same issues that have been grabbing national headlines — transgender rights, Medicare, the Zika virus, and safe treatment of pain. Those issues come […]

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NH AG is trying to blame one company that sells 6% of the opiates for NH’s addiction problem

Posted on June 11, 2016 by Pharmaciststeve

N.H. probes whether drugmaker downplays addiction risk http://www.bostonherald.com/news/national/2016/06/nh_probes_whether_drugmaker_downplays_addiction_risk CONCORD, N.H. — The New Hampshire Attorney General’s office is targeting the maker of Oxycontin, a top selling prescription painkiller, with an investigation into whether it downplays the risks of addiction when marketing pain pills to doctors and other prescribers. But Connecticut-based Purdue Pharma for now is […]

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The Life Legal Defense Foundation wants you to suffer until your last breath ?

Posted on June 10, 2016 by Pharmaciststeve

Lawsuit claims California’s End of Life Option Act is unconstitutional http://mainenewsonline.com/content/29095-lawsuit-claims-california-s-end-life-option-act-unconstitutional Lately, California has come up with a law that will allow terminally ill patients to use End of Life Option Act. Under the law that went into effect on Thursday, doctors would be able to prescribe pills that will fasten deaths of terminally ill […]

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Be careful with your medication copays…

Posted on June 10, 2016 by Pharmaciststeve

“Aetna Coventry [Medicare] Advantage plan telling us to charge a $100 copay on generic Ambien, which we could sell to the customer for $15. Also, telling us to charge $100 for generic opioid pain medicine when [the patient] could buy it in cash for $50-$70.” “For the month of May in my pharmacy there were […]

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Naloxone’s price has risen as much as 17-fold in the past two years.

Posted on June 10, 2016 by Pharmaciststeve

Sen. McCaskill Wants Answers From Makers Of Opiate Overdose Antidote http://www.ozarksfirst.com/news/sen-mccaskill-wants-answers-from-makers-of-opiate-overdose-antidote SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., wants answers from five pharmaceutical companies that make the opiate overdose reversal drug known as Narcan.    Prices of some versions of the drug have risen as much as 17-fold in the past two years.    […]

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