PHARMACIST STEVE

The ‘Gateway Drug’ Is Alcohol, Not Marijuana countercurrentnews.com/2016/12/gateway-drug-alcohol-not-marijuana/ Researchers at the University of Florida have found that the theory of a “gateway drug” is not associated with marijuana – results from the Guttman scale indicated that alcohol represented the gateway drug, leading to the use of tobacco, marijuana, and other illicit substances. Furthermore, students who […]

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Merck’s Former Doctor Predicts Gardasil to Become the Greatest Medical Scandal of All Time www.realfarmacy.com/gardasil-scandal/ “It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly […]

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Why Untreated Chronic Pain is a Medical Emergency https://edsinfo.wordpress.com/2015/04/15/why-untreated-chronic-pain-is-a-medical-emergency/ Alex DeLuca, M.D., FASAM, MPH;Written testimony submitted to the Senate Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs regarding the “Gen Rx: Abuse of Prescription and OTC Drugs” hearing; 2008–03–08. Untreated Chronic Pain is Acute Pain The physiological changes associated with acute pain, and their intimate neurological relationship with brain […]

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Corralling opioid supply won’t end the demand http://www.ack.net/opinion/20170331/corralling-opioid-supply-wont-end-demand Purdue Pharma pushed OxyContin with great success and profitability, as described in your March 26 editorial, “A prescription for responsibility.” In 2012 two CVS pharmacies in Sanford, Florida, ordered 3 million doses of oxycodone, fueling the supply of pills that made their way up I-95 to be […]

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This letter was inserted in correspondence from our Part D provider. If you read the first line on Federal civil rights laws and discrimination per age or disability in particular. If healthcare providers refuse to treat a pt because of “disability”… could they be charged/fined for violating Federal law ? If your insurance company refuses […]

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If you do NOTHING…. you get NOTHING Hi Steve! I was wondering if you know of any pain patients in Ohio who would be willing to talk to a NBC reporter about the new law Gov Kasich just signed. I responded about this article, and the journalist responded, but was totally clueless about legitimate use […]

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