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Chronic pain sufferers applaud changes to opioid limits law http://www.wcsh6.com/news/local/chronic-pain-sufferers-applaud-changes-to-opioid-limits-law/450683168 AUGUSTA, Maine (NEWS CENTER) — People taking opioid painkillers for chronic pain are breathing a little easier. A new state law that went into effect Friday is clearing up confusion about how much a patient can legally take. The law used to require people taking […]

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While this may seem VERY STRANGE.. In June of 1960.. I turned THIRTEEN … the above picture  was from the 8th grade “safety patrol”.. I am second row… third from right…  Thanks to my old time friend… standing to my immediate left… he saved all of these – some believe – embarrassing pictures and posts […]

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This isn’t easy for me but I would like to share a very upsetting and frustrating experience I have had with a doctor and ua lab results. A little about me, I suffer from RSD/CRPS, Fibromyalgia, Occipital Neuralgia, I’ve had Thoracic surgery yrs ago which seems to be given me pain also, Cervical disc fusion […]

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Steve my name is XXXXX I was told about you on a IC site another young women has taken here life this past weekend . I am 62 and on disability my husband decided 6 months ago he no longer wants to be married. On top of that my family Dr had her nurse call […]

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Jeff Sessions is wrong about the War on Drugs https://action.aclu.org/secure/sessions-war-on-drugs Attorney General Jeff Sessions is spouting rhetoric and promoting policies that we’ve been working hard to put in the past. With near-consensus that the War on Drugs was a failure on all levels, the country is ready to move to smart and commonsense reforms to […]

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Supreme Court tightens rules on class-action lawsuits https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/capitalbusiness/supreme-court-tightens-rules-on-class-action-lawsuits/2017/06/19/435260c6-550a-11e7-a204-ad706461fa4f_story.html#comments The Supreme Court on Monday issued a ruling that makes it more difficult for plaintiffs attorneys to look for friendly locations for their lawsuits, a practice known as “court shopping.” The court reversed a lower-court decision on class action lawsuits, ruling that hundreds of defendants who sued […]

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What happens when lives are dramatically torn apart by chronic pain? The Painful Truth takes us behind the headlines of addiction and beyond the controversies of the war on opioids – and provides an intimate view of patients’ frustrations, setbacks, and goals as they deal with chronic pain. We hear patients tell us their stories […]

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Do you think the chronic pain community could get Michael Moore-the film maker to take his camera around the country and get our story out? I am a retired federal social security examiner and a part of the story not being told is the millions of people who will now apply for social security disability […]

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Our Mission http://www.aarp.org/about-aarp/ AARP is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, social welfare organization with a membership of nearly 38 million that helps people turn their goals and dreams into real possibilities, strengthens communities and fights for the issues that matter most to families — such as health care, employment and income security, and protection from financial abuse. […]

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388,000 residents die each year of HAIs with infection control practices lacking, experts warn http://www.mcknights.com/news/388000-residents-die-each-year-of-hais-with-infection-control-practices-lacking-experts-warn/article/668614/ Long-term care providers are falling behind when it comes to training for infection control personnel, leaving gaps that may be to blame for at least some of the 380,000 annual resident deaths linked to healthcare-associated infections, new research shows.  Investigators […]

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