Woman DIES after being INTENTIONALLY thrown into COLD TURKEY WITHDRAWAL

Posted on August 23, 2016 by Pharmaciststeve

Lawsuit: Indifference by medical staff at Forsyth jail led to woman’s death https://triad-city-beat.com/2016/08/lawsuit-indifference-medical-staff-forsyth-jail-led-womans-death/ A lawsuit filed in Forsyth County court alleges that a private healthcare company and medical staff at the local jail displayed deliberate indifference, causing the death of a woman awaiting trial in 2014.   A lawsuit filed in Forsyth County court last […]

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paybacks are hell ?

Posted on August 23, 2016 by Pharmaciststeve

Watch the latest video at video.foxbusiness.com EpiPen price skyrockets 400% What I find interesting… Mylan’s President is the daughter of Sen Manchin (D-VA)… The Senator has proposed a OPIATE TAX and one of Mylan’s major products is Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen… which is taking a volume/profit hit because the DEA changed this product to a C-II a couple […]

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Target stores has lost “foot traffic” because CVS now operates their pharmacies ?

Posted on August 23, 2016 by Pharmaciststeve

Customers: CVS Takeover Erased Everything Good About Target Pharmacies https://consumerist.com/2016/08/23/customers-cvs-takeover-erased-everything-good-about-target-pharmacies/ One of the reasons that Target gave for its poor performance during a recent earnings call was that stores may have lost some foot traffic because of “some disruptions” when the discount store sold its pharmacy business to CVS. We wondered what that meant, and asked […]

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The truth and all the truth that “the spin” will allow ?

Posted on August 23, 2016 by Pharmaciststeve

Report: Pills in Prince’s home mislabeled, contained fentanyl http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/22/health/prince-pills-fentanyl/ It is amazing how some reporters have to spin the TRUTH to make a point.  It has been reported that the tablets found in Prince’s position was a “Watson 385”.  This tablet was a commercial product containing 7.5 mg of Hydrocodone and 500 mg of Acetaminophen.  […]

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Palliative care – revisited

Posted on August 23, 2016 by Pharmaciststeve

Some of my readers seem to have the same mental concept as some of the legislators that pass many of the laws that are impaling many in the chronic pain community. PALLIATIVE CARE is a process not a structure. Yes palliative care is normally associated with cancer care and end of life Hospice, but it […]

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