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Medical cannabis can help reduce our nation’s pain epidemic http://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/353482-medical-cannabis-can-help-reduce-our-nations-pain-epidemic On Wednesday, Sept. 27, the president’s Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis, lead by Governor Chris Christie (R), held its third meeting entitled: Innovative Pain Management and Prevention Measures for Diversion. The agenda, which was not released until the day it was […]

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Morgan & Morgan to Help Kentucky AG in Fight to End Opioid Crisis https://www.forthepeople.com/blog/kentucky-opioid-crisis We are proud to announce that the Kentucky Attorney General’s office has selected our law firm to lead litigation against the major players responsible for creating the opioid crisis, a drug epidemic that has caused immeasurable heartbreak and suffering for families […]

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Canada’s Opioid Guidelines Let Her Die Without Dignity http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/marvin-ross/canadas-opioid-guidelines-let-her-die-without-dignity_a_23204951/ Our response to overdose deaths is to target pain patients and their doctors, when most know that this is not the source of the problem. The last six months of her life before she passed away last week were spent in misery thanks to the new […]

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ACLU sues to challenge FDA limits on access to abortion pill http://www.miamiherald.com/news/article176783321.html The American Civil Liberties Union sued Tuesday in a challenge to federal restrictions that limit many women’s access to the so-called abortion pill. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Hawaii, targets long-standing restrictions imposed by the Food and Drug Administration that […]

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BREAKING: FDA Issues New Demand To Doctors As Epidemic Reaches New Levels At any given moment, approximately 2 million Americans are addicted to prescription painkillers. This can occur from them being over-prescribed painkillers or using them well beyond the scope of regular use. Opioid addiction has become enough of an issue in the United States […]

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Andrew Kolodny on Chronic Pain – Kind Of www.nationalpainreport.com/andrew-kolodny-on-chronic-pain-kind-of-8834549.html By Ed Coghlan. I spoke with Andrew Kolodny recently. The man who is aggressively pushing the idea of restricting or eliminating opioid usage has become the bane of many chronic pain patients. The conversation was about a commentary we had published by Suzanne Stewart that he […]

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Patient Advocates Call on Brandeis to Fire Kolodny http://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2017/10/3/patient-advocates-call-on-brandeis-to-fire-kolodny A coalition of physicians, patient advocates and pain sufferers has written an open letter to Brandeis University asking for the dismissal of Andrew Kolodny, MD, a longtime critic of opioid prescribing who is co-director of opioid policy research at the university’s Heller School for Social Policy […]

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Opioid Policy Steering Committee; Establishment of a Public Docket; Request for Comments https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/09/29/2017-20905/opioid-policy-steering-committee-establishment-of-a-public-docket-request-for-comments   AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS. ACTION: Notice; request for comments. SUMMARY: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or Agency) is establishing a public docket to solicit suggestions, recommendations, and comments from interested parties, including patients and patient representatives, health care […]

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