Patients have been urged to call their health-care providers and their insurance companies for assistance

Posted on July 20, 2016 by Pharmaciststeve

Pain-clinic patients worry as DEA moves toward revoking doctor’s registration http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/freaking-out-pain-clinic-patients-worry-as-dea-steps-up/ Since it is estimated that there is between 1.9 and 2.1 million serious opiate addicts in the USA… which .. if 25,000 pts of these eight clinics have been “thrown to the curb”… either means that these clinics were providing opiates to 12.5 % […]

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The real reason that so many more Americans are using heroin

Posted on July 20, 2016 by Pharmaciststeve

The real reason that so many more Americans are using heroin https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/07/20/the-real-reason-that-so-many-more-americans-are-using-heroin/#comments President Obama has committed to sign the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act, which includes among its provisions new policies to reduce inappropriate prescribing of prescription opioids such as Oxycontin and Vicodin. Given the ongoing epidemic of addiction and death caused by opioid painkillers, […]

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