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“Hooked Rx: From Prescription to Addiction” https://cronkite.asu.edu/news-and-events/events/featured-event/%E2%80%9Chooked-rx-prescription-addiction%E2%80%9D   Tuesday, January 10, 2017 – 6:30pm The Cronkite School is hosting a public screening of “Hooked Rx: From Prescription to Addiction,” an investigative report produced by Cronkite students on alarming rise in prescription opioid abuse, on Tuesday, Jan. 10, in the First Amendment Forum at 6:30 p.m. […]

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This is a section of the CDC opiate dosing guidelines…  Those prescribers and corporations that create policies and procedures based on portion of this guidelines and not the guideline in its entirety may be walking into a legal minefield. This is just ONE PARAGRAPH from the CDC guidelines… but contains a lot of very important […]

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https://www.consumeraffairs.com/rx/riteaid_rx.html Jeff of Rural Retreat, VA on Nov. 30, 2016 Satisfaction Rating  A pharmacist at a RiteAid drug store contacted one of my doctors offices and reported that I had purchased alcohol at the drug store where they worked. As a result of this action by this pharmacist, the doctor that this was reported to, […]

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Carrie Fisher’s Urn Is Her “Prized Possession” Antique Prozac Pill http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/carrie-fishers-urn-is-a-huge-prozac-pill-961625 I wonder where she got that “Prozac pill” in the 50’s… since Prozac was not brought to market until 1987 ? The family will plan a public memorial for Fisher and mother Debbie Reynolds in the future. Carrie Fisher was always making people crack […]

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Below  (IN BLACK)  is the second email that I have received in the last couple of days from chronic pain pts where their “pain clinic” has decided to CAVE to the CDC guidelines… SCREW … practicing medicine… just care for pts “BY THE NUMBERS”..  That is NOT PRACTICING MEDICINE… that is just filling in the […]

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Judge Rules Insurance Company Must Pay for Injured Worker’s Medical Marijuana hightimes.com/news/judge-rules-insurance-company-must-pay-for-injured-workers-medical-marijuana/ In what could become a precedent-setting decision, New Jersey Judge Ingrid French ordered an insurance company to pay for medical marijuana for an injured worker who suffers from lingering neuropathic pain after an accident involving a power saw at an 84 Lumber outlet […]

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Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Philadelphia residents up in arms over soda tax hit http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/01/06/philadelphia-residents-up-in-arms-over-soda-tax-hit.html just wait until Senator Manchin gets his opiate prescription tax to help fund treating addicts Clinton backs Manchin plan to tax opioids Philadelphia residents are getting hit by the first big-city soda tax in the country, and they’re not […]

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GW Pharmaceuticals Announces Positive Results from Phase 3 Cannabidiol Trial http://www.epilepsy.com/article/2016/3/gw-pharmaceuticals-announces-positive-results-phase-3-cannabidiol-trial Monday, March 14, 2016 GW Pharmaceuticals has announced positive results from the first of two Phase 3 studies of Epidiolex® (cannabidiol or CBD) in the treatment of Dravet syndrome. Median seizure reduction was 39% with Epidiolex versus only 13% with placebo, a scientifically significant […]

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24 dead as flu slams Washington; hospitals and state coordinate to fight epidemic http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/article125032549.html Getting a flu shot is a CDC GUIDELINE… just like the opiate dosing guideline… so should healthcare professionals be held liable/responsible for deaths from catching the flu because the healthcare professional did not mandate that their pts get a flu shot […]

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