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The fuzzy line between medication use and abuse www.kevinmd.com/blog/2016/11/fuzzy-line-medication-use-abuse.html Opioid painkillers, such as Vicodin (hydrocodone) and OxyContin (oxycodone), are crucial medical tools that are addictive and widely abused. Tranquilizers and sleeping pills of the benzodiazepine class, like Xanax (alprazolam), Ativan (lorazepam) and Klonopin (clonazepam), are safe and effective in limited, short-term use, but are often […]

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Michael Pendleton, MD doctorsofcourage.org/index.php/2016/11/17/michael-pendleton-md/ Internist Michael Pendleton, MD of Corpus Christi Texas is the next innocent black physician to be attacked by government overreach into medicine. In fact, the overreach goes much farther than other attacks, because they closed his office as part of “an active investigation”. Does the DEA even have the right to […]

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With 2 Weeks To Go: American Kratom Association Urges Kratom Community To “Speak Up Now!” And Get 10,000 Comments In To DEA http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/with-2-weeks-to-go-american-kratom-association-urges-kratom-community-to-speak-up-now-and-get-10000-comments-in-to-dea-300365196.html WASHINGTON, Nov. 17, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — With exactly two weeks to go before the December 1st end to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Agency (DEA) comment period on kratom, the American Kratom Association […]

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UnitedHealth Hit Again in Drug Price Litigation Wave http://www.bna.com/unitedhealth-hit-again-n57982082861/ By Jacklyn Wille Nov. 16 — UnitedHealth Group is once again in the crosshairs of a lawsuit by a health plan participant who claims she was secretly overcharged for prescription drugs ( Fellgren v. UnitedHealth Group Inc. , D. Minn., No. 0:16-cv-03914, complaint filed 11/15/16 ). […]

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Surgeon General Vivek Murthy: Addiction Is A Chronic Brain Disease, Not A Moral Failing http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/vivek-murthy-report-on-drugs-and-alcohol_us_582dce19e4b099512f812e9c If addiction is now being – FINALLY – declared a MEDICAL CONDITION… why is the DEA/judicial system still in charge of doling out “treatment” for those who abuse opiates ? The way forward includes needle exchanges and calling addiction what […]

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DEA chief Chuck Rosenberg on America’s “growing” opioid epidemic http://www.cbsnews.com/news/america-opioid-prescription-pills-problem-drug-enforcement-agency-chuck-rosenberg/ Rosenberg misquotes so many things about the TRUE FACTS… I get tired of trying to point out these obvious MISSTATEMENTS OF THE TRUTH.  Hopefully Rosenberg is at the end of his career as head of the DEA.. with the incoming President Trump. If you can’t […]

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Controversial question: Is pot part of the answer to the heroin epidemic? fox8.com/2016/11/17/controversial-question-is-pot-part-of-the-answer-to-the-heroin-epidemic/ If we are a country that works by “majority rule” and the MAJORITY of states has made marijuana LEGAL… why isn’t the Feds conforming to the voice of the majority of our country ? CLEVELAND – One week after seven additional states legalized […]

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High-dollar Prescribers Proliferate in Medicare’s Drug Program https://www.propublica.org/article/high-dollar-prescribers-proliferate-in-medicare-drug-program? Forty-one health providers prescribed more than $5 million in drugs in 2011. Last year, that jumped to 514. “The trends in this space are troubling and don’t show any signs of abating,” a federal official said. by Charles Ornstein and Ryann Grochowski Jones ProPublica, Nov. 17, 2016, […]

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Ex-cop who helped police with addiction dies in CVS parking lot http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/cop-who-helped-police-with-addiction-dies-cvs-parking-lot/86uQQsMugPqhFA9ZPYnALN/ One of the BIGGEST things that our bureaucracy professes as the MEANS to keep people from abusing some substance and becoming addicted.. is EDUCATION…  It is hard to argue that this cop was very knowledgeable about substance abuse and addiction and yet he […]

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Doctor fills us in after feds search office http://news4sanantonio.com/news/local/doctor-fills-us-in-after-feds-search-office SAN ANTONIO- A local doctor fills us in on why his practice was raided Tuesday by the FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration or DEA. Dr. Javier Bocanegra and his attorney say the allegations and investigation by the DEA and FBI are not directed at him or […]

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