Opiate prescriptions can be filled… if the pt has enough CASH ?

Posted on November 13, 2017 by Pharmaciststeve

Can you please give me some advise on how to get my valid pain medication refilled. I have been getting the same Rx for several years. I have had to stop taking my prescriptions to the big pharmacies because they always claim not to have them and they won’t order them. I’m disabled and I […]

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Senators Pressed DEA to Cut Rx Opioid Supply

Posted on November 13, 2017 by Pharmaciststeve

Next year ( Nov 2018) 34 Senators are up for re-election https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2017/11/13/senators-pressured-dea-to-cut-rx-opioid-supply A group of 16 U.S. senators played an influential role in getting the Drug Enforcement Administration to make further cuts in the supply of opioid pain medication, the latest example of how politicians have inserted themselves into the healthcare choices of Americans. As […]

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Can Jeff Sessions Wreak RICO Ruin on America’s Cannabis Industry?

Posted on November 13, 2017 by Pharmaciststeve

www.marijuanapolitics.com/can-jeff-sessions-wreak-rico-ruin-americas-cannabis-industry/ Attorney General Jeff Sessions remains a sworn enemy of all things marijuana. Alarmingly, a half-century old law may now give him the power to soon devastate medical marijuana and the thriving American marijuana businesses. The 1970 Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) was designed to attack organized crime, the mafia. Since then vaguely […]

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‘My only other option is to die’: N.S. woman dismayed by pain clinic closure

Posted on November 13, 2017 by Pharmaciststeve

‘My only other option is to die’: N.S. woman dismayed by pain clinic closure http://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/mobile/my-only-other-option-is-to-die-n-s-woman-dismayed-by-pain-clinic-closure-1.3672496 A Nova Scotia woman says if the Dartmouth Pain Clinic closes, she will be left with two options: seek her medication illegally on the streets, or end her own life. Dawn Rae Downton has been living with chronic pain due […]

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The FACES OF PAIN … normally INVISIBLE to all but the pt’s family

Posted on November 13, 2017 by Pharmaciststeve

https://youtu.be/RjrJnriz6y8 https://youtu.be/0CuFEgnz8yA

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Imagine this: A functioning addict… not committing crimes

Posted on November 13, 2017 by Pharmaciststeve

https://www.wsbtv.com/news/2-investigates/prescription-heroin-the-alternative-approach-to-opioid-addiction/643637593 ATLANTA – As deaths continue to escalate from the opioid and heroin crisis across the country and here in Georgia, Channel 2 Action News visited an addiction clinic doing something you may say is unthinkable: giving heroin to addicts. Despite the controversy, studies and patients experiences back up the success of the approach. MONDAY […]

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CDC guidelines: fewer opiates being prescribed… pt’s pain levels UP… suicides UP

Posted on November 13, 2017 by Pharmaciststeve

 https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/2017-cdc-survey/ 2017 CDC SURVEY RESULTS Thank you for your interest in our survey on the impact of the CDC’s opioid prescribing guidelines. The online survey of 3,108 pain patients, 43 doctors and 235 other healthcare providers was conducted between February 15 and March 11, 2017 by Pain News Network and the International Pain Foundation (iPain). […]

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