PHARMACIST STEVE

From my INBOX: Steve, I read your article and I have a perfect example of what has happened. I suffer and have suffered from Chronic Back pain and neuropathy in my feet for 12 years  and never have filled early and have taken them on time and as prescribed. The pharmacy has now refused to […]

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DEA report: Heroin, fentanyl overdoses plague most of U.S.; Fla. battles marijuna, meth http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-drug-threat-assessment-fentanyl-20161207-story.html This is Pam Bondi’s political ad when she ran for re-election TWO YEARS AGO… BRAGGING how the judicial system in Florida had “taken care of” all the illegal substance abuse… Of course, she has two more years in office as FL […]

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Ohio Had Most Opioid Overdose Deaths In The Country. What’s Next? http://radio.wosu.org/post/ohio-had-most-opioid-overdose-deaths-country-whats-next The Kaiser Family Foundation says that in 2014, Ohio had the highest number of deaths from opiate overdoses in the U.S. In Ohio in 2014, 2,106 people died from opiate overdoses, more than in either California or New York State. According to the […]

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DEA: Fentanyl-related overdose deaths rising at an alarming rate http://www.wfmj.com/story/33949303/dea-fentanyl-related-overdose-deaths-rising-at-an-alarming-rate The DEA can’t/won’t go after the ILLICIT IMPORTED SYNTHETIC DRUG MARKET… they even LUMP all “drug poisonings” into a larger group of OD deaths… and they won’t/can’t separate deaths from pharmaceutical opiates and other ILLEGAL OPIATES…  Opiate prescriptions peaked in 2012 and have been dropping […]

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Doctors And Hospitals Say ‘Show Me The Money’ Before Treating Patients http://khn.org/news/doctors-and-hospitals-say-show-me-the-money-before-treating-patients/ Tai Boxley needs a hysterectomy. The 34-year-old single mother has uterine prolapse, a condition that occurs when the muscles and ligaments supporting the uterus weaken, causing severe pain, bleeding and urine leakage. Boxley and her 13-year-old son have health insurance through her job […]

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Man dies of emotional distress after being forced to clean Walgreens bathroom, widow says http://www.wftv.com/news/local/man-dies-of-emotional-distress-after-being-forced-to-clean-walgreens-bathroom-widow-says/473525151 ORLANDO, Fla. – The widow of a 69-year-old man has sued an Orlando Walgreens store, accusing them of holding her husband captive until he cleaned and mopped the store’s bathroom. You can also check out more details here! Maria Elizarraras […]

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CDC Manipulated Data to Deceive Durations of Opioid, Nonopioid Drug, and Behavioral Clinical Trials for Chronic Pain: Adequate or Inadequate? CDC Manipulated Data to Deceive This commentary presents the case that the CDC manipulated the data it used as a basis for its opioid prescribing guidelines. By imposing an arbitrary non-standard constraint and excluding some studies that […]

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Orrick, Representing Marijuana Advocate, Challenges DEA Statements About Pot http://www.therecorder.com/home/id=1202773915178/Orrick-Representing-Marijuana-Advocate-Challenges-DEA-Statements-About-Pot? A national nonprofit advocacy group supporting legal access to medical marijuana has petitioned the U.S. Justice Department to require drug enforcers to correct allegedly false and misleading information about cannabis use on its website. Americans for Safe Access, represented pro bono by Orrick, Herrington & […]

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G.O.P. Plans Immediate Repeal of Health Law, Then a Delay www.nytimes.com/2016/12/02/us/politics/obamacare-repeal.html Obamacare was signed into law March 2010… with the “worse part – higher premiums ” of it not kicking in until 2017… when Obama would be out of office.  Part of their “bad timing” was that the 2017 HIGHER premiums were announced right before […]

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