PHARMACIST STEVE

State groups have been setup on Facebook in order to help organize letter writing campaigns, meetings, picketing and the like.  If we don’t know where intractable pain patients (IPPs) reside, we can’t target members of the DEA Oversight Subcommittees, Health Care committees, etc.  There is anti opioid legislation pending and/or passed in many states and […]

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four days ago… there was a legal defense fund created for Dr Tennant  https://www.gofundme.com/dr-tennant-legal-defence-fund Since it was created … FORTY EIGHT people have donated from $5.00 to $2,000.00 for a grand total of $6,555.00 Supposedly 100 million chronic pain pts… and so far 48 people have stepped up.. and a few that have stepped up […]

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The DEA hasn’t updated their Guidance on Controlled Substances since 2006. Important information for everyone to know www.familiesforiprelief.com/advocacy/issues-and-opportunities/ DEA GUIDANCE AND DEMANDS FOR PHYSICIANS WHO PRESCRIBE CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES THE PRACTITIONER’S MANUAL OF 2006* CORE INSTRUCTION Stated in 2 sentences on page 19: “A prescription for a controlled substance must be issued for a legitimate medical […]

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Minnesota effort to reduce overdose deaths is putting doctors, patients in a bind. http://www.startribune.com/the-other-side-of-the-opioid-debate/463071143/# Jerry Larson waits for his granddaughter Mia, 9, to come home from school as he rests on the couch with a chihuahua he calls Taco. He wished he could go out to a nearby playground, but the back pain makes it […]

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NOTICE TO PATIENTS OF ANY PAIN CLINIC, ANYWHERE. We are being advised that in some instances where DEA has stepped up their activities regarding targeting of pain clinics and physicians, that patients are also being approached in their homes. BE AWARE, that unless you are presented with a WARRANT signed by a Judge with YOUR […]

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http://wric.com/2017/12/14/hidden-fees-at-the-pharmacy-why-it-may-be-cheaper-not-to-use-your-insurance/ RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — A woman uses her insurance to purchase the drug Sprintec. Her copay was $50. However, if she didn’t use her insurance and paid cash for the drug, it would only have cost her $11.65. That’s a difference of $38.35. This is called a copay clawback. It’s a little-known secret driving up […]

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Officials call opioid abuse a ‘pandemic http://www.neshobademocrat.com/Content/NEWS/News/Article/Officials-call-opioid-abuse-a-pandemic-/2/297/42265 The growing impact of opioids in Philadelphia and other communities was discussed at a town hall meeting last week where an officer with the state Bureau of Narcotics told about 75 people in attendance that the nation was “on the brink of a super pandemic.” Lt. Jon Harless […]

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In Judiciary Hearing, Bipartisan Senators Set Record Straight on DEA/Opioid Legislation Washington, DC—This morning, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing to review the Ensuring Patient Access and Effective Drug Enforcement Act—a bill that was passed in the previous Congress to clarify the Drug Enforcement Administration’s enforcement authority with regard to the medicine supply chain. […]

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Kentucky’s top agriculture official: DEA wrong to call hemp products illegal https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/crime/2017/12/14/hemp-oil-hemp-seeds-legal-kentucky-dea/951836001/ Ryan Quarles, Kentucky’s Agriculture Commissioner, fired a letter to the head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration this week asking to meet to discuss “federal overreach” with industrial hemp. “I was dumbfounded when I read a Louisville Courier-Journal article that was titled, ‘Are you breaking […]

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