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            Nearly a year ago another chronic pain pt and myself trying to raise a legal “war chest” to help with lawsuits against various entities. Our goal.. we thought .. was rather modest… to get abt 1% of the chronic pain community to donate – one time – the cost […]

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Ohio Marijuana Law Won’t Change Zero-Tolerance Policies Policies may need updating to clarify that the use of medical marijuana isn’t tolerated in the workplace https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/legal-and-compliance/state-and-local-updates/pages/ohio-marijuana-law.aspx The use of medical marijuana for certain illnesses will soon be legal under Ohio law, but that doesn’t mean employers have to tolerate it, according to employment attorneys interviewed by […]

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The CDC posts all sorts of medical guidelines. None of which bears the weight of law. But it seems that only their most recent guide on opiate dosing is being considered by many that these opiate guidelines are in fact LAW.   This showed up in my inbox today:   FYI-Information for everyone…. You probably […]

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Patient Harm: When An Attorney Won’t Take Your Case https://www.propublica.org/article/patient-harm-when-an-attorney-wont-take-your-case The Story So Far Too many patients suffer harm instead of healing in U.S. medicine. That’s why ProPublica’s reporters have investigated everything from deadly dialysis centers and dangerous hospitals to the failure of state boards to discipline incompetent nurses. This page allows patients, providers and […]

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CVS Cuts Coverage of Dozens of Drugs in Exclusion Expansion http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-02/cvs-plans-to-bar-novartis-cancer-drug-from-2017-covered-drugs   Benefit manager to exclude some cancer, diabetes treatments Company cites ‘hyperinflationary’ increases on 10 drugs CVS Health Corp. will add 35 products to its lists of excluded drugs in 2017 and no longer cover some treatments for cancer and diabetes, in an aggressive move […]

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Coverage Issues Limiting MS Patients’ Rx Access http://www.painmedicinenews.com/Web-Only/Article/07-16/Coverage-Issues-Limiting-MS-Patients-Rx-Access-/37191/ses=ogst More than one in five people with multiple sclerosis (MS; 22%) experienced negative changes in their insurance coverage within the past year, and almost one in four patients taking disease-modifying therapy (DMT) relied either partially or completely on discounted or free drug programs (24.7%) for their medications, […]

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JAMES R. KING, Plaintiff, v. CVS HEALTH CORPORATION Defendant. Doc.264Memorandumopiniononplaintiffposttrialmotions Doc[1]

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First Do No Harm The above link is the 183 page *.pdf that was the brain child of Indiana’s AG Greg Zoeller… on opiate dosing. A couple of years back.. Zoeller “forced” the Indiana Medical Licensing Board to pass “emergency regulation” on mandatory drug testing for all pts on opiates. After being at the war […]

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For those of you who believe that all the promises being made my those seeking election/reelection and using that four letter “F” word  “FREE” quite freely… you need to get a copy of the book to the left – if still in print… It was co-authored by the co-chairman of the commission that Pres Regan […]

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Ward: Drug ‘war’ is over in rural areas http://www.thestarpress.com/story/opinion/columnists/ward/2016/08/01/ward-drug-war-over-rural-areas/87001876/ The so-called war on drugs is over. Heroin has won. No. That doesn’t mean heroin and other drug users can indulge their addiction with impunity. It means the problem is so big, so overwhelming, so pervasive that police officers are unable to make headway in a […]

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