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46 alleged members of infamous NYC crime families arrested http://wtkr.com/2016/08/04/46-alleged-members-of-infamous-nyc-crime-families-arrested/ The FBI arrested more than 40 alleged members of New York City mobs Thursday on suspicion of arson, health care fraud and illegal gambling, among other charges, officials said. WPIX reports those arrested include members of four of the five major Italian mafia families that allegedly dominate organized crime […]

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turnthetiderx.org/# The Surgeon General’s call to end the opiate crisis According to the Surgeon General… long term opiate therapy is appropriate for pts  active cancer, palliative, and end-of-life care… read the definition of PALLIATIVE CARE  below.. how many chronic pain pts have a cause of pain that there is NO WAY TO IMPROVE THE CONDITION […]

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Opioid Addiction Is a Huge Problem, but Pain Prescriptions Are Not the Cause Cracking down on highly effective pain medications will make patients suffer for no good reason http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/mind-guest-blog/opioid-addiction-is-a-huge-problem-but-pain-prescriptions-are-not-the-cause/ Both the FDA and the CDC have recently taken steps to address an epidemic of opioid overdose and addiction, which is now killing some 29,000 Americans […]

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Mother-of-three died in agony from Crohn’s disease after doctors said she was ‘imagining most of her pain’ thehealthmagazines.org/mother-of-three-died-in-agony-from-crohns-disease-after-doctors-said-she-was-imagining-most-of-her-pain/ A woman who visited hospital 50 times in the lead up to her death was told by medics the chronic pain she suffered was all in her head, her husband claims. Michelle Ashby, 43, spent three years […]

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New York Soda Size Limit Statute Barred by State Judge http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-03-11/new-york-city-soda-size-limitations-barred-by-state-court-judge If the bureaucracy CANNOT limit the amount of soft drinks that a person can purchase, why can they limit the number of  mgs that a pt can be prescribed/buy ?  Is it because no one has challenged the various rules in the court as […]

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Why news media speculation over Trump’s mental health needs to stop www.healthnewsreview.org/2016/08/why-news-media-speculation-over-trumps-mental-health-needs-to-stop/ The following is a guest blog post from one of our regular contributors and reviewers, Susan Molchan, MD, a psychiatrist in the Washington, DC area, who also has worked as a scientist at the National Institute of Mental Health. “With each passing week […]

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