PHARMACIST STEVE

I just posted the following note to 15,000 people on Facebook.  Feel free to pass this on to blogs where you are active.   I am sometimes asked “how can I help” with efforts to stop the war against chronic pain patients by their own government. One of the ways may be to write the […]

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New opioid douses pain without being addictive or deadly in primates http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/09/new-opioid-douses-pain-without-being-addictive-or-deadly-in-primates/ I wish that I had a dollar for every time that there has been a “media hype” about a new drug discovery because it showed some promise in some animal study…but.. all of its promise(s) quickly fades before it comes to human clinical […]

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How the feds are fueling America’s opioid disaster nypost.com/2016/12/19/how-the-feds-are-fueling-americas-opioid-disaster/   One has to look at this problem from those on “both sides of the fence”… while it is definitely worse for not only those with chronic pain… it also impacts all those pts that have a valid medical necessity for using a controlled substance… which includes […]

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MatchMyRx: An App that helps patients understand their prescriptions by matching their Meds with their Conditions http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/3180788 Miami, FL PRX Control Solutions, a digital health company that offers a smart prescription platform to health plans and payers recently launched a Web App to help patients increase awareness of their medications. According to the Centers of […]

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Beijing denies US claim that China is synthetic drug king http://newsok.com/article/feed/1134723 There are people/entities in China that are addicted to the money that is being generated by all the illegal synthetic drugs that they are producing and selling in the USA… the DEA is addicted to the power and budgets that they are in denial […]

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Meet The Bureaucratic Roadblock Behind New Restrictive Painkiller Rules www.disabledveterans.org/2015/02/20/meet-bureaucratic-roadblock-behind-new-restrictive-painkiller-rules/ New federal rules governing narcotic painkiller prescriptions have taken a toll on countless thousands of veterans relying on them to treat pain from missing limbs and other conditions. Over the past six months, many veterans have written me about problems they experienced getting refills for their […]

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‘Suspicious’ drug order rules never enforced by state   http://www.wvgazettemail.com/news-health/20161218/suspicious-drug-order-rules-never-enforced-by-state#sthash.UemaFxQ2.dpuf Tucked in the West Virginia Code of State Rules, you’ll find a three-sentence regulation designed to keep in check the flow of prescription pills into the state. The rule directs wholesale distributors to set up systems to identify “suspicious” orders for highly addictive narcotics. It […]

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As many of us have often noticed… there is a lot of bitching, whining and moaning from those within the chronic pain community and little activity outside of Face Book… I have created a Twitter account  https://twitter.com/painedlives  and Twitter has a way of creating lists (groups) that a tweet can be sent out to everyone […]

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We need to speed up our acceptance of the opioid guidelines http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2016/12/need-speed-acceptance-opioid-guidelines.html This was forwarded to me by a reader with the following comments on the article: and she thinks she knows what she’s talking about.  I’ve had difficulty with 2-3 NPs in the past, and didn’t really know the source of my difficulty until […]

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My blog has been experiencing some loading errors over the last few days and I have contacted my ISP and apparently over the years my websites and their databases have been spread out over several of their servers over the 10 yrs that I have been using them. They have promised to consolidate all of […]

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