53 flags: Group constructs memorial to raise awareness of veteran suicides

Posted on December 22, 2017 by Pharmaciststeve

http://missoulian.com/news/local/flags-group-constructs-memorial-to-raise-awareness-of-veteran-suicides/article_c2951f78-c970-5a5a-95ba-548575ef2ab4.html In Missoula County in 2016 alone, 18 military veterans took their own lives. That’s a staggering number, an average of more than one every three weeks. It’s also by far the largest number for any county in the state, where a total of 53 veterans took their own lives that year. “It’s sad,” said […]

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Rehab Expert: Pain Patients Denied Needed Opioids in Palliative Care

Posted on December 22, 2017 by Pharmaciststeve

http://www.painmedicinenews.com/Policy-and-Management/Article/12-17/Rehab-Expert-Pain-Patients-Denied-Needed-Opioids-in-Palliative-Care/45403#_=_ David, a 38-year-old father of four and five-year survivor of fungal meningitis, experiences the long-term effects of contaminated epidural injections that have left him with headaches, visual disturbances, tinnitus, adhesive arachnoiditis and fibromyalgia. His story exemplifies the gap between state and federal health care laws and treatment protocols for those with chronic pain requiring […]

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How fentanyl gets to the U.S. from China

Posted on December 22, 2017 by Pharmaciststeve

How fentanyl gets to the U.S. from China https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/j5vpdx/how-fentanyl-gets-to-the-us-from-china The powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl is now the deadliest drug in America, causing an estimated 19,000 fatal overdoses in 2016. The DEA says most of the illicit fentanyl comes from China, either shipped directly to U.S. consumers through the mail or mixed with heroin that is […]

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Jeff Sessions Leaves the Cole Memo Intact, For Now

Posted on December 22, 2017 by Pharmaciststeve

https://www.leafly.com/news/politics/jeff-sessions-leaves-the-cole-memo-intact-for-now Late Thursday, US Attorney General Jeff Sessions formally rescinded 25 guidance documents created by his predecessors at the Justice Department. The guidance memos, meant to set policy and establish enforcement priorities, dealt with a variety of issues. Most critically for the cannabis industry, the Cole memo was not among the 25 memo scuttled by […]

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Indiana Couple Wins First Xarelto Trial in Philadelphia

Posted on December 22, 2017 by Pharmaciststeve

http://pittsburgh.legalexaminer.com/fda-prescription-drugs/indiana-couple-wins-first-xarelto-trial-in-philadelphia/ On December 5, 2017, an Indiana couple won their Xarelto lawsuit in Philadelphia. The jury ordered that the drug manufacturers, Bayer AG and Johnson & Johnson (J&J), pay $27.8 million for failing to warn about the blood-thinner’s serious side effects. Of that award, $1.8 million was designated for compensatory damages and $26 million in […]

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TX: doctors filed a class action suit against the narcotics bureau for practicing medicine without a license and the doctors won.

Posted on December 22, 2017 by Pharmaciststeve

I found out today it’s is the MS Bureau of Narcotics that are pressuring the doctors in this state to cut back. In TX they did the same thing and the doctors filed a class action suit against the narcotics bureau for practicing medicine without a license and the doctors won. After Christmas I’m going […]

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More “assisted suicide” by our medical system

Posted on December 22, 2017 by Pharmaciststeve

My father who was also a physician took his own life because of trigeminal neuralgia. Four days ago a long term friend and former and a former patient of mine shot himself in the head when he was forced by the medical board to taper off the opioids that were keeping him comfortable enough to […]

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