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Colorado marijuana’s potency getting ‘higher’ http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/21/health/colorado-marijuana-potency-above-national-average/index.html Denver (CNN)More than two years after Colorado began selling marijuana for recreational use, cannabis consumers have access to pot that is more potent than ever. There are dozens, if not hundreds, of different strains among thousands of plants grown legally under bright lights and fans in giant warehouses across […]

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Anti-inflammatory pills tied to heart failure risk http://www.foxnews.com/health/2016/10/20/anti-inflammatory-pills-tied-to-heart-failure-risk.html Widely used non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are associated with an increased risk of heart failure— even in people without a history of cardiac issues, a recent study suggests. Which is a great amount of good news when you consider all the lawsuits being had. http://sideeffectsofxarelto.org covers the […]

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HFM responds to drug deaths lawsuit http://www.htrnews.com/story/news/crime/2016/10/20/szyman-drug-death-lawsuit-manitowoc-holy-family-memorial/92477902/ Another situation where BIG NUMBERS are quoted… so that they can SOUND BAD… If you use the “minimum of 400 pts” and abt 15 month period.. and 19,250 prescriptions… if you do the math… that would amount to abt an average of 3+ Rxs/person/month… presuming that each was […]

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Walnut: This Popular Nut Slashed Breast Cancer Risk in Mice by 50% http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/03/07/fda-says-walnuts-are-drugs.aspx# How long before every part of our individual lives are controlled/regulated by some part of the Federal bureaucracy… Federal oversight seems to be growing like a “spider web” By Dr. Mercola As unbelievable as it sounds, current law makes it illegal for […]

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Grieving mother urges more oversight for pharmacies that make errors https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2016/10/20/grieving-mother-urges-more-oversight-for-pharmacies-that-make-errors.html As she had done so many times before, Melissa Sheldrick helped her 8-year-old son Andrew get ready for bed one Saturday evening last March. Andrew, who was diagnosed by a doctor with a sleeping disorder, was on a regular prescription for tryptophan, a drug […]

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Are There Times When a Legal Duty Not to Dispense Exists? http://www.pharmacytimes.com/publications/issue/2016/October2016/Are-There-Times-When-a-Legal-Duty-Not-to-Dispense-Exists While there are a lot of details of this lawsuit missing… but.. the courts ruling that a Pharmacist could be held liable for failing to refuse to fill prescriptions over a time period.  Once again we are talking about treating “subjective disease”  – […]

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Much of World Suffers Not From Abuse of Painkillers, but Absence of Them www.nytimes.com/2016/05/18/world/much-of-world-suffers-not-from-abuse-of-painkillers-but-absence-of-them.html? By RICK GLADSTONEMAY 17, 2016 Photo   An H.I.V. patient cooling off at a treatment center on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar, in 2012. The use of opioid analgesics to relieve pain is low in Asia and much of the developing […]

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http://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/pdf/pharmacists_brochure-a.pdf Will need to DOUBLE CLICK on image to be readable        

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Fentanyl patient ashamed to pick up prescription amid ongoing opioid ‘crisis’ globalnews.ca/news/3007708/fentanyl-patient-ashamed-to-pick-up-prescription-amid-ongoing-opioid-crisis/? As the provinces and the federal government work to address a “public health crisis” amid growing rates of opioid overdoses and deaths across the country, one Ontario man says that without fentanyl his quality of life would be destroyed. The 48-year-old agreed to […]

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