PHARMACIST STEVE

The Season of Renewal and Suicide Why are people more likely to kill themselves in springtime than during the holidays? http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2012/12/suicide_rate_season_there_more_suicides_in_spring_and_not_during_the_holidays.html The suicide rate does not peak during the holidays, and the media should stop saying it does, according to a report released Tuesday by the Annenberg Public Policy Center. In fact, the suicide rate […]

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The crackdown on opioid prescriptions is leaving chronic pain patients in limbo http://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/4/7/14738292/crackdown-opioid-prescriptions-chronic-pain Jenny Rellick was born with spinal muscular atrophy, a degenerative disease that causes muscles to waste away. Eight years ago, she was facing pain so severe that her doctors put her on a high-dosage regimen of two different kinds of opioids. One […]

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I have been keeping up on your page for quite some time and now I need some help. I have been a patient with the same doctor for 10 years. Over the years we have tried many different treatment plans, some holistic, some requiring narcotics. For the past 5 years I have been on varying […]

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Amid opioid crisis, Minnesota sees significant decline in painkiller prescriptions https://www.minnpost.com/politics-policy/2017/04/amid-opioid-crisis-minnesota-sees-significant-decline-painkiller-prescriptio Minnesota health care professionals dispensed about 9 percent fewer prescriptions for controlled opioid painkillers in 2016 than they did in 2015, according to the Minnesota Board of Pharmacy. The data comes amid an opioid epidemic that continues to crescendo in Minnesota and the U.S. […]

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Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Parity The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 (MHPAEA) requires group health plans and health insurance issuers to ensure that financial requirements (such as co-pays, deductibles) and treatment limitations (such as visit limits) applicable to mental health or substance use disorder (MH/SUD) benefits are no more […]

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This morning I got a call from a physician on the east coast, who part of his/her practice is treating addicts with Suboxone.  Not every Physician can prescribe Suboxone, a physcian has to take special training and gets a distinct DEA number. This physician practices is a rather rural part of this state and apparently […]

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             I am sending you this letter in regards to how I have been treated while trying to get my meds filled. Just about EVERY time I go to Meijer pharmacy in , Michigan I’m harassed by one or more of the pharmacist on duty. I’m asked why do I […]

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It seems like every entity that believes that they have some authority to interfere with the practice of medicine and opiate dosing… are attempting to put in their two cents and enacting some guidelines, laws and/or threatening some healthcare providers with having their accreditation withdrawn if they exceed a certain amount of MME/day on pts.  […]

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Chronic Pain Sufferers Are Scared by Ohio’s New Opioid Rules http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/americas-heroin-epidemic/chronic-pain-sufferers-are-scared-ohio-s-new-opioid-rules-n742951 Chronic pain sufferers fear they could become casualties in the war on Ohio’s opioid overdose epidemic. They say recent moves by Gov. John Kasich to fight the plague by restricting how many painkillers can be prescribed will add to their anguish — and could […]

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Chronic pain victims share ‘other side’ of prescription drug abuse epidemic VIDEO ON HYPERLINK    http://www.abc15.com/news/state/chronic-pain-victims-share-other-side-of-prescription-drug-abuse-epidemic They are people who feel shut out from their pharmacies, by emergency rooms, and their doctors. Already struggling with chronic pain they feel “abandoned” by a system that is now focusing on a prescription drug epidemic that’s gripped the […]

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