Upcoming CDC Webinar Highlights Agency’s Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain

Posted on August 10, 2016 by Pharmaciststeve

Upcoming CDC Webinar Highlights Agency’s Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain The next CDC webinar, “Dosing and Titrating Opioids,” will be held on Wednesday, August 17, 2016, at 2 PM (ET) as part of a free continuing education (CE) webinar series for health care providers on the CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic […]

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A EPIDEMIC .. that no one wants to talk about ?

Posted on August 10, 2016 by Pharmaciststeve

Local Pharmacies Putting Patients At Risk With Dispensing Errors  

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Elderly Hospital Patients Arrive Sick, Often Leave Disabled

Posted on August 10, 2016 by Pharmaciststeve

Elderly Hospital Patients Arrive Sick, Often Leave Disabled About 1/3 of patients over 70 leave more disabled than when they arrived http://www.medpagetoday.com/Geriatrics/GeneralGeriatrics/59594 SAN FRANCISCO — Janet Prochazka was active and outspoken, living by herself and working as a special education tutor. Then, in March, a bad fall landed her in the hospital. Doctors cared for […]

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Did Pfizer “SELL OUT” the chronic pain community to avoid being drug into a lawsuit because it has only ONE OPIATE that is a LOW SELLER ?

Posted on August 10, 2016 by Pharmaciststeve

Pfizer sets painkiller marketing code with Chicago’s opioid police http://www.fiercepharma.com/marketing/pfizer-sets-painkiller-promo-code-chicago-s-opioid-marketing-police Did Pfizer “SELL OUT” the chronic  pain community to avoid being drug into a lawsuit because it has only ONE OPIATE that is a LOW SELLER ? Pfizer and the city of Chicago have hammered out an agreement on painkiller marketing, setting out a code […]

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Drug Enforcement Administration seize a small fortune in cash.

Posted on August 10, 2016 by Pharmaciststeve

DEA regularly mines Americans’ travel records to seize millions in cash http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/08/10/dea-travel-record-airport-seizures/88474282/ WASHINGTON — Federal drug agents regularly mine Americans’ travel information to profile people who might be ferrying money for narcotics traffickers — though they almost never use what they learn to make arrests or build criminal cases. Instead, that targeting has helped the […]

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CVS: where “health is everything” is you disregard all the med errors ?

Posted on August 10, 2016 by Pharmaciststeve

According to this report CVS stores in Georgia had most complaints about medication errors than any other pharmacy chain

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