Drug overdose calls decreasing in Louisville

Posted on August 3, 2017 by Pharmaciststeve

Drug overdose calls decreasing in Louisville http://www.whas11.com/news/local/drug-overdose-calls-decreasing-in-louisville/461561141 LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WHAS11) — Drug overdose calls within the city of Louisville are down since February which is an encouraging sign for health care workers. “I knew that there was a crisis in Hepatitis C, but I didn’t know the opioid crisis was as bad as it is,” […]

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Middlemen Who Save $$ On Medicines — But Maybe Not For You

Posted on August 3, 2017 by Pharmaciststeve

Middlemen Who Save $$ On Medicines — But Maybe Not For You http://khn.org/news/little-known-middlemen-save-money-on-medicines-but-maybe-not-for-you/ For the past seven months, the GOP push to replace the Affordable Care Act has consumed Washington. All the while, many consumers continue to be focused on the rising costs of prescription drugs. Pharmacy benefit managers — companies that are often unnoticed […]

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Pain patients are being cut off from their drugs. Here’s why.

Posted on August 3, 2017 by Pharmaciststeve

Pain patients are being cut off from their drugs. Here’s why. http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2016/09/pain-patients-cut-off-drugs-heres.html In March, 2016, the CDC released guidelines for prescribing opioids.  The guidelines were a response to a serious and growing problem: millions of pain patients became addicted to prescribed opioids, and hundreds of thousands died as a result. Since the guidelines were released, […]

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Elinore McCance-Katz, MD, PhD, as the assistant secretary for mental health and substance use, a new position that has been called the mental health “czar”

Posted on August 3, 2017 by Pharmaciststeve

Senate Confirms Surgeon General, Other HHS Picks http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/883770 The US Senate has approved Jerome Adams, MD, to be the next surgeon general. Dr Adams, along with four other nominees for positions in the Department of Health and Human Services, were confirmed today without a full floor vote but with the Senate’s full consent. The legislators […]

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