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Insurers restricting high-risk opioid users to select pharmacies http://drugtopics.modernmedicine.com/drug-topics/news/insurers-restricting-high-risk-opioid-users-select-pharmacies?page=0,1 As the opioid epidemic continues to get worse, some health insurers are blocking patients identified as “high risk” from getting multiple opioid prescriptions filled at various pharmacies by restricting where they can fill prescriptions. Editor’s Choice: How pharmacists should be fighting the heroin epidemic Lisa Morris, […]

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Suboxone: the methadone of the decade http://www.clinicaladvisor.com/your-comments/suboxone-the-methadone-of-the-decade/article/506524/ I work with many patients in family practice and mental health, but I also have many patients, as well as family and friends, who are in recovery from addiction. Suboxone is not the answer [Advisor Forum, May 2016]. Suboxone has become a crutch for many. What was supposed […]

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Tonight I watch Bernie Sanders standing along side Hillary Clinton claiming that he was going to do his best to make sure that all American has what they need.  I am not sure that the bureaucrats in our Federal system can adequately determine what each of us needs.. I am concerned that they are incapable […]

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Sometimes THE TRUTH is hard to recognize Overdose deaths increased by more than one third in Western Pennsylvania, DEA says http://triblive.com/news/allegheny/10781143-74/heroin-county-drug This is a article mostly stating FACTS except they make one statement in the article  While good statistics aren’t available … the continue to include MAY… MIGHT.. and their GOAL is to HOPEFULLY stop […]

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Often  chronic pain pts’ need for increased pain meds is blamed on “tolerance” …  some believe that the pt’s increase needs has little/nothing to do with the concept of “tolerance”. In all likelihood this concept came from the fact that those who have abused opiates quickly develop a “tolerance” to “getting high” and keep having […]

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D.C. Week: HHS Eases Buprenorphine Prescribing http://www.medpagetoday.com/Washington-Watch/Washington-Watch/58977 WASHINGTON — The Obama administration raised the cap on the number of individuals for whom prescribers can prescribe buprenorphine and the FDA approves the first bioresorbable stent for coronary artery disease. HHS Eases Buprenorphine Prescribing The Obama administration announced a new rule that could lower the death toll […]

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Don’t Use Oral Liquid Docusate Stool Softener in Any Patient, CDC Warns http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/865957 US health officials are continuing to investigate a multistate outbreak of infections caused by Burkholderia cepacia complex possibly linked to contaminated oral liquid docusate stool softener products. In its July 8 update, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) advised against […]

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Weekly meeting Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue 8 PM EDT   Goto https://www.livesupportgroup.com/ to register for the live webinar .

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This month starts the FIFTH YEAR of posting on this blog. Over those years, I have written about much, have read about much that is going on within the chronic pain community. I have seen a lot of petition started and failed to get any serious number of people signing them I can’t count the […]

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