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Failure to stand up As one of my readers stated in a comment: “I so wish I could gather all the pain community together to become one united front but how is that done exactly? Especially when there are so many little groups and a few really big organizations that refuse to work together due […]

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Florida Supreme Court allows husband’s lawsuit against doctor after wife’s suicide http://flarecord.com/stories/511041274-florida-supreme-court-allows-husband-s-lawsuit-against-doctor-after-wife-s-suicide TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA – The Florida Supreme Court ruled on Aug. 25 that a Sarasota man, Robert Granicz, may pursue his medical malpractice lawsuit against his late wife’s primary care physician, Dr. Joseph Chirillo, for her 2008 suicide, reported Medscape Medical News in an […]

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Failure … let me count the ways ! Yesterday I posted the above opinion piece… and it did not make everyone happy..  I didn’t expect it to make everyone happy ! This is my FIFTH YEAR in posting on this blog and I have watched “advocates” come and go… They apparently came looking for answers […]

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Blame the pharmacist for giving accused Agawam robber so many pills, defense lawyer says http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2016/11/dont_blame_the_pharmacist_for.html SPRINGFIELD — A defense lawyer for a man accused of trafficking in a prescription painkiller argued Monday her client never should have been accused of having “trafficking weight” of the drug he is alleged to have stolen from an Agawam […]

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Louisville gray market for diabetic strips has pharmacists concerned http://www.wdrb.com/story/33674071/louisville-gray-market-for-diabetic-strips-has-pharmacists-concerned LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — A secondhand market for medical supplies has local pharmacists concerned about the risks to patients. Buyers have been advertising on telephone poles throughout Louisville, trying to resell diabetic testing strips online at discounted prices. The practice is not necessarily illegal, as long as […]

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  Medicaid Denial for Hep C Drugs Nearing 50% in Some States http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/854708?src=WNL_confprev_161110_MSCPEDIT&uac=75309AG   SAN FRANCISCO — Medicaid programs in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania denied nearly half of all claims in recent months for direct-acting antiviral hepatitis C drugs, according to an analysis of pharmacy data presented here at the Liver Meeting 2015. The […]

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DEA seeks more accurate drug-death numbers http://www.readingeagle.com/news/article/dea-seeks-more-accurate-drug-death-numbers Reading, PA Four months after two widely distributed reports gave vastly different numbers for deaths caused by drug overdoses in Pennsylvania, the federal Drug Enforcement Administration said it has teamed with an academic agency to take drug death reporting and analysis to a new and more sophisticated level. […]

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U.S. Enforcing Insurance Law to Help Fight Opioid Abuse www.nytimes.com/2016/11/08/us/mental-health-parity.html We have abt TWO MILLION serious opiate substance abusers and 116 million chronic pain pts and look at where the administration is using its FORCE to get certain pts appropriate therapy ? WASHINGTON — In one of President Obama’s last major health care initiatives, the […]

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Once again the chronic pain community has failed to create unity Yesterday’s election abt 98% of the incumbents got re-elected… So how does the chronic pain community expects change.. if they don’t participate in causing change. Untold number of Face Book pages have been created to get the chronic pain to unify.. Unity WILL NOT […]

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