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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infamous NYC crime families arrested: involved in healthcare fraud

Posted on August 9, 2016 by Pharmaciststeve

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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Use their words against them !

Posted on August 9, 2016 by Pharmaciststeve

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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at least half of people with opioid addictions also have a mental illness or personality disorder

Posted on August 9, 2016 by Pharmaciststeve

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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NHI: 20+ yrs of Crohn’s … pain is all in your head ?

Posted on August 9, 2016 by Pharmaciststeve

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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Why addressing some epidemics are unconstitutional and not others ?

Posted on August 9, 2016 by Pharmaciststeve

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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Does “PILING ON” harm all those with mental health & subjective diseases ?

Posted on August 9, 2016 by Pharmaciststeve

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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