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Physicians’ legal duty to relieve suffering https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1071521/ The evidence that physicians and nurses do not treat pain adequately began to appear in the medical literature nearly 30 years ago.1 In the following decades, the accumulated data showed that many types of pain—acute pain, cancer pain, and chronic nonmalignant pain—were being undertreated.2 The reasons offered for […]

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Death After Naltrexone: The Fraud of Short-Term Results www.rehabs.com/pro-talk-articles/death-after-naltrexone-the-fraud-of-short-term-results/ She was a petite, shy 23-year-old girl who became addicted to heroin the same way as countless other young people from her small town in Wisconsin. She initially did well with buprenorphine treatment. But after about six months, she began using heroin again. She seemed to […]

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Maine veterinarians say new pain meds law puts animals, humans at risk https://bangordailynews.com/2017/03/29/news/state/maine-veterinarians-say-new-pain-meds-law-puts-animals-humans-at-risk/ LEWISTON, Maine — When one of Gary Stuer’s four-legged patients gets injured, has surgery or is living with cancer, the Bethel veterinarian prescribes pain medicine. Sometimes that pain medicine is an opioid. “For years, we’ve had non-steroidal drugs, and we call that […]

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Class action: Walgreens charges insured, Medicare customers too much for prescription drugs http://cookcountyrecord.com/stories/511098464-class-action-walgreens-charges-insured-medicare-customers-too-much-for-prescription-drugs A multi-state class action complaint filed March 23 in federal court in Chicago accuses Walgreens of fraud, negligent misrepresentation and unjust enrichment in relation with the way it prices prescription drugs.  Named plaintiffs Dorothy Forth, Troy Termine, Cynthia Russo and the International […]

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Underground labs in China are devising potent new opiates faster than authorities can respond http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/03/underground-labs-china-are-devising-potent-new-opiates-faster-authorities-can-respond Former addict Miller Atkinson remembers when fentanyl-laced heroin hit the streets in Cincinnati: “It started trickling in, and we were like ‘Wow, that was good, we need to get more of that.’” © MADDIE MCGARVEY Underground labs in China are […]

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Since 2007, the DEA has taken $3.2 billion in cash from people not charged with a crime https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/03/29/since-2007-the-dea-has-taken-3-2-billion-in-cash-from-people-not-charged-with-a-crime/ The Drug Enforcement Administration takes billions of dollars in cash from people who are never charged with criminal activity, according to a report issued today by the Justice Department’s Inspector General. Since 2007, the report found, the […]

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Maine’s new opiate limits could be targeted in lawsuit http://bangordailynews.com/2017/03/28/health/maines-new-opiate-limits-could-be-targeted-in-lawsuit/ AUGUSTA, Maine — Two midcoast men who suffer from chronic pain informed state officials on Tuesday that they intend to sue over a new law that limits opiate prescriptions in an effort to stem Maine’s addiction crisis if it isn’t changed. The threatened lawsuit from […]

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