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http://www.kare11.com/mb/news/investigations/whos-profiting-from-prescription-overcharges/347424661 Investigations Who’s profiting from prescription overcharges? MINNEAPOLIS – Internal pharmacy records obtained by KARE 11, along with two newly filed class-action lawsuits, raise questions about whether some popular insurance plans are overcharging customers for prescription medicines and pocketing the profits. What’s more, documents obtained during KARE 11’s yearlong investigation reveal that so-called “gag clauses” […]

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War on prescription drugs: what if you depend on opioids to live a decent life? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/12/prescription-drugs-what-if-you-depend-on-opioids-chronic-pain The US is facing what many are describing as an opioid crisis, with growing numbers of deaths associated both with opioid medications and overdoses on heroin – 19,000 in 2014 linked to opioids alone. But in the swirl of […]

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Drug epidemic stalls HIV decline in whites who shoot up http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/11/29/drug-epidemic-stalls-hiv-decline-in-whites-who-shoot-up.html NEW YORK –  The long decline in HIV infections among white people who inject drugs has stalled, another grim side effect of the nation’s drug abuse epidemic. Health officials released the news Tuesday, as part of a call for more use of needle exchange […]

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Survey Of ER/Trauma Health Care Professionals Finds No Evidence Of Either Kratom Deaths Or Epidemic Of Abuse military-technologies.net/2016/11/29/survey-of-ertrauma-health-care-professionals-finds-no-evidence-of-either-kratom-deaths-or-epidemic-of-abuse/ WASHINGTON, Nov. 29, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — If the DEA is correct in suggesting that there is a kratom epidemic going on in America, then it is somehow happening without our nation’s front-line medical professionals knowing a thing […]

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PA Dumpster Divers Arrested For Helping Their Community http://www.huffingtonpost.com/zac-thompson/dumpster_divers_arrested_b_13209010.html The average person creates an incredible amount of waste on a daily basis and the average grocery store is even worse. The amount of perfectly good food that goes to the garbage is far too high now that we’re living in an era of convenience. The […]

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Dr Carlos Sullivan of Butte died recently and suddenly. He was carrying some patients on pain meds for their long term chronic pain. Some of these patients have come to me to see if I could help them. I just received a call from the ER in Butte, looking to help a patient who lost […]

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Kratom may be safer and less addictive than current treatments for pain, research suggests http://www.news-medical.net/news/20161129/Kratom-may-be-safer-and-less-addictive-than-current-treatments-for-pain-research-suggests.aspx A delayed U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration ban on kratom would stifle scientific understanding of the herb’s active chemical components and documented pharmacologic properties if implemented, according to a special report published today in The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association. […]

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Police: Suburban drug users take fatal risks to score drugs in Indy http://fox59.com/2016/11/28/police-suburban-drug-users-take-fatal-risks-to-score-drugs-in-indy/ INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.– Detectives aren’t yet certain what Evans Johnson and Jessica Downey were doing in the vicinity of 23rd and Adams Streets the night before Thanksgiving, but whatever it was, they paid for the excursion with their lives. Johnson listed a home […]

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