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Feds Declare War On Herb Touted As A Solution To Opioid Addiction Just imagine if more and more chronic pain pts found an alternative to legal opiates… say like a herb like Kratom and MJ… Opiate prescribing would drop… while those suffering with the mental health disease of addictive personality disorder… continues using Heroin and […]
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Are More ‘Purple Pill’ Lawsuits Around the Corner? https://bol.bna.com/are-more-purple-pill-lawsuits-around-the-corner/ By Julie A. Steinberg, Bloomberg BNA AstraZeneca’s “purple pill” Nexium caused an Illinois man’s kidney disease, according to the latest suit in what could be a new wave of litigation. The plaintiff George Mullen sued last week in federal court in Brooklyn and accused AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP and AstraZeneca LP […]
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For nine years, DEA withholds names of masked agents who violently raided two innocent women. Federal court shrugs. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2016/08/30/for-nine-years-dea-withholds-names-of-masked-agents-who-violently-raided-two-innocent-women-federal-court-shrugs/?utm_term=.3d86d9ce5edb A few years ago, I wrote about the raid on Geraldine and Caroline Burley for the Huffington Post: When Caroline Burley, now 51, first heard the boom around 5:30 on the evening of June 13, [2007] […]
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Needle exchange coming to Clark County, Ind http://www.whas11.com/news/local/needle-exchange-coming-to-clark-county-ind-/310897530 This story was covered on all four major TV networks last night in the Louisville, KY metro area. The story concerns Clark Co Indiana which is south central Indiana on the Ohio river bordering Louisville, KY.. and it is connect to Scott County to the north where […]
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Pharmacy Benefit Managers Improperly Reinterpret Medicare Rules For Financial Gain https://www.yahoo.com/news/pharmacy-benefit-managers-improperly-reinterpret-medicare-rules-financial-134000448.html WASHINGTON, Aug. 30, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — A new White Paper from the Community Oncology Alliance (COA) looks at recent moves by Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) to increase corporate profits by declaring all physician dispensing to be out-of-network. Prepared for COA by attorneys at the […]
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Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it This is the DEA …FDA….big pharma…. besides this site is NOT about political issues The following quote appeared in a FB page dedicated to chronic pain.. It was a very long thread with many comments from many people. IMO… how many are oblivious that […]
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This is unprecedented’: 174 heroin overdoses in 6 days in Cincinnati http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/midwest/ct-heroin-overdose-outbreak-20160829-story.html The original numbers were startling enough — 30 heroin overdoses across Cincinnati in a single weekend. Then they just kept climbing. Another 78 overdoses and at least three deaths were reported during a 48-hour period Aug. 23 and 24. And at the end […]
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Navy veteran says Kroger pharmacy pill mix-up caused his kidney failure (VIDEO on LINK) http://www.wlwt.com/news/navy-veteran-says-kroger-pharmacy-pill-mixup-caused-his-kidney-failure/41418980 CINCINNATI —Randy and Carmen Crews are facing a legal and medical fight. They have a lawsuit against one of the largest retailers in the world. They accuse Kroger of a medicine mix-up they say could have cost Randy Crews, a […]
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Sen. Joe Manchin backs suit by addicts who say docs and Big Pharma conspired to hook them on opioids https://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/sen-joe-manchin-backs-suit-by-addicts-who-say-docs-and-big-pharma-conspired-to-hook-them-on-opioids/ The annual payouts from “Tobacco Money” lawsuit from the late 20th century will be running in the next few years. Have the states become “addicted” to this cash and looking for the next “cash cow” […]
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