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Attorneys general in Appalachia pressure, sue health insurers over opioids http://www.cnhinews.com/cnhi/article_73975d9e-9d4f-11e7-b68b-f3d8febecaf0.html HUNTINGTON, W. Va. — The nation’s advancing opioid epidemic has officials and lawmakers in the most impacted states taking on the entities they deem responsible for skyrocketing drug addiction and overdose numbers. Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear and West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey […]

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6 Stages of Fibromyalgia https://www.life-enthusiast.com/articles/6-stages-of-fibromyalgia Stage 1 You started experiencing pain and fatigue more than before, you’re not sure what is going on but you hurt and you are tired. You can hold a job, you can make it through your day, but you know something isn’t right… so it’s something you’re going to start […]

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States ask insurers to prioritize non-opioid pain treatment http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/states-insurers-prioritize-opioid-pain-treatment-49937810 Attorneys general representing the majority of states asked health insurers Monday to encourage pain treatment through means other than prescriptions for opioid painkillers, which are responsible for tens of thousands of deaths a year in the U.S. The top government lawyers in 35 states signed a […]

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Tylenol Isn’t So Safe, But At Least It Works, Right? https://www.acsh.org/news/2017/09/18/tylenol-isnt-so-safe-least-it-works-right-11827 I’m not a big fan of Tylenol, which becomes rather obvious if you read the first part of this two-part series. For a drug that is so widely used, it is quite easy to consume enough, accidentally or otherwise, to take enough to suffer a toxic […]

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Hippocratic Oath: Classical Version I swear by Apollo Physician and Asclepius and Hygieia and Panaceia and all the gods and goddesses, making them my witnesses, that I will fulfill according to my ability and judgment this oath and this covenant: To hold him who has taught me this art as equal to my parents and […]

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As pharmacists we are in a tough spot. I had a DEA agent stand in my pharmacy and watch as a lady handed over a stack of narcotics rxs to the technician. He said no one should be taking those unless they have cancer. ( his words, not mine). This same DEA agent told me […]

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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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