7,400-8,000 veterans are committing suicide annually.

Posted on January 10, 2017 by Pharmaciststeve

VA cover-up is morally indefensible http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jan/3/americas-veterans-affairs-cover-morally-indefensib/ The U.S. government is guilty of a cover-up reminiscent of the tobacco industry’s longstanding denial of a nexus between smoking and disease. The government conceals from its soldiers the risk of suicide or self-destructive behavior connected with fighting in our nine ongoing presidential wars not in self-defense that entail […]

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Gov. Walker calls special session on opioid bills: “This isn’t somebody else’s problem”

Posted on January 10, 2017 by Pharmaciststeve

Gov. Walker calls special session on opioid bills: “This isn’t somebody else’s problem” fox6now.com/2017/01/05/governor-scott-walker-calls-special-legislative-session-on-opioid-bills/ MADISON— Governor Scott Walker is calling a special legislative session to pass a package of bills designed to curb heroin and opioid abuse. Walker has a long list of plans, but one idea — drug testing high school athletes — isn’t […]

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Memory pill maker (PREVAGEN) sued on grounds no proof it works

Posted on January 10, 2017 by Pharmaciststeve

Memory pill maker sued on grounds no proof it works http://www.reuters.com/article/us-quincybioscience-ftc-memorypills-idUSKBN14T1Y6 Quincy Bioscience LLC, which makes the memory supplement Prevagen, was hit with a lawsuit on Monday filed by the Federal Trade Commission and New York attorney general’s office, which alleged that there is no proof the supplement works. The medicine, which costs $24 to […]

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CDC writers group for the most part ignored the input of expert pain management specialists as they developed their guidelines on opioid prescription for chronic pain.

Posted on January 10, 2017 by Pharmaciststeve

Searching for Alternatives to Opioids -Way Too Late http://acsh.org/news/2017/01/10/searching-alternatives-opioids-way-too-late-10676 Anyone who reads a newspaper these days has been exposed to the ongoing hysteria concerning a so-called (and largely fictitious) “epidemic” of deaths due to prescription opioid drugs.  Nine months after the issuance of a highly restrictive CDC guideline, we are learning that the CDC writers […]

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Marine Vet Suffering From Chronic Pain Writes Congress

Posted on January 10, 2017 by Pharmaciststeve

Marine Vet Suffering From Chronic Pain Writes Congress nationalpainreport.com/marine-vet-suffering-from-chronic-pain-writes-congress-8832641.html By Ed Coghlan With the coming of a new President, comes a familiar promise – to do more for the country’s military veterans with an eye toward reforming the VA Medical System. No disrespect to President-elect Trump, but there doesn’t seem to be much in his plan […]

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