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< img alt=’Dashboard 1 ‘ src=’https://public.tableau.com/static/images/4M/4MYYD6XDN/1_rss.png’ style=’border: none’ /> Hot Spots for the Opioid Crisis Problematic pockets in every state, CDC reports https://www.medpagetoday.com/PainManagement/PainManagement/66477 New county-level data from the CDC highlight the extreme geographic variation in opioid prescription rates, with some areas showing average morphine equivalents per capita 10 times greater than those of less-impacted counties. […]

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July 7, 2017 Scott Gottlieb, MD Commissioner of Food and Drugs, U.S. Food and Drug Administration 10923 New Hampshire Avenue Silver Spring, MD 20993 RE: Docket No. FDA-2017-D-2497 Dear Dr. Gottlieb, Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing (PROP) is pleased that FDA intends to revise the Blueprint for Prescriber Education for Extended-Release and Long-Acting (ER/LA) Opioids […]

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Sheriff won’t let officers use Narcan, says life-saving drug not helping heroin epidemic Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com http://www.foxnews.com/health/2017/07/07/sheriff-wont-let-officers-use-narcan-says-life-saving-drug-not-helping-heroin-epidemic.html An Ohio sheriff is taking a stand in the war on heroin addiction that he said will get at the root of the epidemic, and that seems to fly in the face of standard police […]

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Shakeel A. Kahn, MD www.doctorsofcourage.org/shakeel-a-kahn-md/ This should be interesting–two dogs fighting over the same bone. Shakeel Kahn and his wife, Lyn Kahn, of Casper, Wyoming were indicted by the Federal Government in two different states in order to steal the same property. But since the winning district reaps the reward of the forfeited assets, these […]

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Meet the Doctor Who Refuses to Stop Prescribing Opioids to Pain Patients Pain patients from across the country are flocking to a boundary-pushing pain specialist in West Covina, California because they can’t get the treatment they need in their home states. A growing “opioid epidemic” in the U.S. has led law enforcement agencies to crack […]

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DEA Allowed Criminal Cops to Build Their Own Drug Empires for Over a Decade www.thefreethoughtproject.com/dea-ignored-agents-selling-drugs-for-over-a-decade/ According to a whistleblower inside the DEA, the agency “allowed and promoted” multiple officers to run their own personal drug cartels for years New Orleans, LA — For over a decade, agents with a New Orleans-based DEA task force sold […]

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S.D. Cops Forced Catheters for Drug Testing https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2017-07-07/south-dakota-cops-indulged-sadistic-desires-forcing-catheters-into-men-aclu-lawsuit-says Although some men volunteered to give urine samples for drug testing, the Pierre Police Department forcibly catheterized them any way, according to a lawsuit. Authorities across South Dakota have been illegally forcing catheters into young and old alike to acquire urine for drug tests, lawsuits filed last […]

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Endo Pharma Agrees to Pull Abuse-Deterrent Opioid http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/882578 Endo Pharmaceuticals has agreed to remove its abuse-deterrent extended-release formulation of oxymorphone (Opana ER) from the US market, about a month after the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) asked the company to stop selling the pain medication. In a statement, the company said it “continues to […]

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Trump’s Surgeon General Pick Built Reputation Fighting HIV And Opioids In Indiana http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/07/05/535618770/surgeon-general-nominee-championed-policies-to-curb-indiana-s-opioid-epidemic Several weeks before President Trump nominated Indiana’s state health commissioner Jerome Adams to be the next U.S. Surgeon General, Adams toured the Salvation Army Harbor Light detox center in Indianapolis, Ind., the only treatment facility in the state for people without insurance. […]

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Pharmacists Held Criminally Liable for Opioid Overdoses http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/882358   As the US opioid epidemic continues to soar, physicians have been held criminally responsible for patients’ overdose deaths. Now, it appears pharmacists are also criminally liable. That’s the opinion of pharmacy law experts who have watched the crisis unfold during the past decade. Keith Yoshizuka, PharmD, […]

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