The Likely Cause of Addiction Has Been Discovered, and It Is Not What You Think

Posted on April 18, 2017 by Pharmaciststeve

The Likely Cause of Addiction Has Been Discovered, and It Is Not What You Think http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/the-real-cause-of-addicti_b_6506936.html VIDEO ON LINK ABOVE It is now one hundred years since drugs were first banned — and all through this long century of waging war on drugs, we have been told a story about addiction by our teachers and […]

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Medicinal Cannabis Treatments Coming, Experts Say

Posted on April 18, 2017 by Pharmaciststeve

Medicinal Cannabis Treatments Coming, Experts Say Larger-scale research, better regulation needed https://www.medpagetoday.com/PrimaryCare/AlternativeMedicine/64606 WASHINGTON — Medicinal cannabis industry officials and scholars here touted potential breakthroughs to treat health problems and questioned why cannabidiol (CBD) is not mandatory for athletes to address traumatic brain injury (TBI). Others, meanwhile, cautioned the field needs much more research and regulation. […]

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Prince’s death was caused by an accidental overdose of fentanyl

Posted on April 18, 2017 by Pharmaciststeve

http://www.fox9.com/news/248998222-story Nothing like “half-truths” and factoids in news stories.  Notice they put a picture of LEGAL FENTANYL patches, but there is no medication in the list below of any patches… only solid oral dosage forms. So was Prince buying “street drugs”  that contained Acetyl Fentanyl… the Fentanyl analog that comes illegally from China ? CHANHASSEN, […]

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Number of Americans with mental illness grows as healthcare access shrinks – study

Posted on April 18, 2017 by Pharmaciststeve

Number of Americans with mental illness grows as healthcare access shrinks – study https://www.rt.com/usa/385073-mental-health-access-study/ More Americans are suffering from serious psychological distress than in the past decades, according to a new study. But as the demand for mental healthcare becomes greater, such services are actually deteriorating. Scientists from New York University’s Langone Medical Center analyzed […]

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‘Not a pill person’: What prescription nonadherence is costing US healthcare

Posted on April 18, 2017 by Pharmaciststeve

‘Not a pill person’: What prescription nonadherence is costing US healthcare http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/quality/not-a-pill-person-what-prescription-nonadherence-is-costing-us-healthcare.html Societal pressure to “do things naturally” is influencing already low rates of prescription adherence in the U.S. — an epidemic resulting in thousands of preventable hospitalizations and deaths each year. Here are seven things to know about the state of prescription adherence across […]

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former DEA agent who applied for the search warrant has since been placed under a cloud for his alleged unlawful activities

Posted on April 18, 2017 by Pharmaciststeve

Veteran with PTSD goes on trial http://www.scdailypress.com/site/2017/04/18/veteran-with-ptsd-goes-on-trial/ A decorated Silver City veteran goes on trial today in U.S. District Court in Las Cruces for allegedly growing marijuana and having an unregistered firearm. Trevor Lee Thayer, a 46-year-old father of three and decorated U.S. Army veteran with the 82nd Airborne, was charged in 2012 after a […]

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Florida’s war on prescription pain medicine has been an abject failure for 20 years and counting

Posted on April 18, 2017 by Pharmaciststeve

How Florida Entraps Pain Patients, Forces Them to Snitch, Then Locks Them Up for Decades Florida’s anti-opioid laws were supposed to take high-level traffickers off the streets. Instead, they put low-level users in prison for most of their lives. http://reason.com/archives/2017/04/18/how-florida-entraps-pain-patients-forces On April 11, 2002, Cynthia Powell entered the criminal justice system for the first time […]

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