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Op-ed: Chronic pain sufferers need access to opioids https://www.deseretnews.com/article/865688783/Op-ed-Chronic-pain-sufferers-need-access-to-opioids.html My 26-year-old daughter, Madison, is an extremely intelligent, articulate, creative and beautiful young woman. Anyone blessed with these attributes should be well on their way to a wonderful and fulfilling life. But Madison is suffering in ways that most people could never imagine. Diagnosed at 13 […]

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Physicians Get Too Much Blame for Opioid Crisis, Some Say http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/885760 SAN ANTONIO, Texas — People looking to place blame for the nation’s opioid crisis too often point the finger at physicians, some speakers said at a reference committee for the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) 2017 Congress of Delegates. As communities across the […]

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Five myths about heroin https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-heroin/2016/03/04/c5609b0e-d500-11e5-b195-2e29a4e13425_story.html?utm_term=.616c93a6ee4d America’s epidemic of heroin and prescription-pain-reliever addiction has become a major issue in the 2016 elections. It’s worse than ever: Deaths from overdoses of opioids (the drug category that includes heroin and prescription analgesics such as Vicodin) reached an all-time high in 2014, rising 14 percent in a single year. […]

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CDC: Updated Influenza Immunization Recommendations for 2017-2018 It is recommended that flu shots should be given by the end of Oct because it takes a couple of weeks for full immunity to build up.  Conversely, there is new evidence that getting a flu shot “early” (Aug-Sept) that the effectiveness of the flu vaccine may have […]

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