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Side Effects: Drug companies’ influence felt in Washington http://www.wtsp.com/news/investigations/side-effects/10-investigates-ide-effects-of-campaign-contributions-and-high-drug-prices/353507544 TAMPA  – Why can’t someone do something about skyrocketing prescription drug prices? That is the question we’ve been asking all week – and trying to get you answers. As 10Investigates found, a major part of the problem is political. The pharmaceutical industry spends a lot of […]

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What Impact Do Medication Errors Have On Nursing Home Residents? http://www.ladailypost.com/content/what-impact-do-medication-errors-have-nursing-home-residents The last 5-6 yrs of my career was spent working as a temp in the two largest nursing home pharmacies in the country.  From what I saw from my vantage point was that there was a lot of meds that were just not given […]

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Father-son informants trafficked drugs while on US payroll http://www.myplainview.com/news/crime/article/Father-son-informants-trafficked-drugs-while-on-10625092.php NEW YORK (AP) — Informants with dirty pasts are a fixture at drug trials, but even by those standards, the father-son team that played a central role in the cocaine trafficking prosecution of the nephews of Venezuela’s first lady stands out. Over several years, the U.S. […]

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President elect Trump has chosen potentially the next Attorney General Senator JEFF SESSIONS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Sessions Of course, all of Trump’s choices for various position will have to be approved by  a majority of the 100 Senators… The current Surgeon General Vivek Murthy announced last week that: Surgeon General: Addiction Is A Chronic Brain Disease, Not A […]

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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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