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This pharmacist told my  nurse I could pick up my pain medication  a day earlier,which is today 6-14-17 that he insisted telling me I cannot pick it up for 2 days ,He stated because it is his store he can do what he wants ! he lied to her of our talk . His family […]

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The case for prescription heroin Vancouver gives heroin to drug users suffering from addiction — and it works. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/6/12/15301458/canada-prescription-heroin-opioid-addiction VANCOUVER, British Columbia — The Providence Crosstown Clinic is decorated with posters espousing the sort of medical advice you might expect at any other doctor’s office: Cover your cough, wash your hands, don’t use antibiotics to […]

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Jeff Sessions Wants To Unleash The DEA On States That Have Legalized Medical Marijuana https://www.civilized.life/articles/jeff-sessions-medical-marijuana-dea/ Attorney General Jeff Sessions wants permission to crack down on medical marijuana across the United States. Last month, Trump’s top law enforcer wrote a letter to Congress asking them to remove the only thing stopping him from prosecuting state-legalized medical […]

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Mexican drug cartels could be behind deadly fake Percocet pills http://www.11alive.com/news/mexican-drug-cartels-could-be-behind-deadly-fake-percocet-pills/448080815 Federal agents believe Mexican drug cartels could be linked to a deadly wave of fake Percocet pills moving through Georgia. The Georgia Department of Public Health said that at least five people are suspected to have died and dozens more have been hospitalized after […]

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US officials are starting to treat opioid companies like Big Tobacco — and suing them http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/us-officials-are-starting-to-treat-opioid-companies-like-big-tobacco-%e2%80%94-and-suing-them/ar-BBCfoAG You can expect more lawsuits against opioid companies in 2017. It is impossible to talk about the causes of the opioid epidemic without pointing to the manufacturers and distributors that marketed and proliferated these dangerous pills. Yet over the […]

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Even Moderate Drinking Changes Brain: Study http://www.newsmax.com/Health/Health-News/moderate-drinking-changes-brain/2017/06/07/id/794639/?ns_mail_uid=38004974&ns_mail_job=1735839_06112017&s=al&dkt_nbr=fds1dvix Drinking even moderate amounts of alcohol is linked to changes in brain structure and an increased risk of worsening brain function, scientists said on Tuesday. In a 30-year study that looked at the brains of 550 middle-aged heavy drinkers, moderate drinkers and teetotallers, the researchers found people drank […]

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 Opioid crisis: Pain patients pushed to the brink Overdose prevention efforts have had unintended — and dire — consequences www.bendbulletin.com/health/5342867-151/opioid-crisis-pain-patients-pushed-to-the-brink Three weeks after her last appointment, Sonja Mae Jonsson got a call from her doctor’s office in Waldport, telling her she needed to come in. Her urine drug screen had tested positive for a drug […]

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FDA Asks Endo Pharma to Take Opana ER Off the Market http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/881337 UPDATE:   Number for FDA is 1-888-463-6332 option 3, then 2, then 4 to get pharmacist about Opana ER. If it goes and it will take the generic too. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has asked Endo Pharmaceuticals to remove its […]

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