DEA Leads Massive Drug Confiscation In War On Opioids

The “fishing” operation went on to target a total of 4,500 to 5,000 drugstores present in the area. The DEA officers accumulated all the drug tracking that they had gathered, and combined it with the data that was received from insurance and billing, provided by the Department of Health and Human Services, the state-level prescription […]

Harris County Attorney Vince Ryan said the lawsuit is seeking to prevent the group named in the lawsuit from selling opioids

Harris County sues drugmakers, doctors over opioid epidemic https://www.click2houston.com/news/harris-county-to-sue-drug-makers-doctors-over-opioid-epidemic Ryan said that the those named in the lawsuit put profits above the public good when advertising and prescribing the powerful painkillers. He said lies, half-truths and deception were used to foster the use of the drugs. The doctors named in the lawsuit by Dallas defense […]

The First Count of Fentanyl Deaths in 2016: Up 540% in Three Years

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/09/02/upshot/fentanyl-drug-overdose-deaths.html   The first governmental account of nationwide drug deaths in 2016 shows overdose deaths growing even faster than previously thought. Related Article Drug overdoses killed roughly 64,000 people in the United States last year, according to the first governmental account of nationwide drug deaths to cover all of 2016. It’s a staggering rise of […]

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Genetic Study Defies ‘One-size-fits-all’ Approach to Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain

FAU Investigator Receives $4 Million NIH Grant for Novel Prescription Opioid Study https://www.newswise.com/articles/view/686700/ Newswise — It impacts 100 million Americans, it is the number one reason that people go to see the doctor, and it is now a national crisis. The problem: chronic pain and prescription opioids. The dilemma: how to provide the most effective […]

The DRUG CRISIS … they don’t talk about.. because docs don’t prescribe it ?

Record number of meth users died in San Diego County last year http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/public-safety/sd-me-meth-stats-20171212-story.html More than a decade after a full-scale assault on methamphetamine production in San Diego County, the drug is continuing to ravage the region, killing a record number of users last year and hooking more than half of adults who end up in […]

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https://www.gofundme.com/dr-tennant-legal-defence-fund Forest Tennant, MD, DrPH, is an internist who specializes in the research and treatment of intractable chronic pain. Dr. Tennant has operated a pain clinic in West Covina, California for over 40 years, and has authored over 300 scientific articles and books on pain management. Dr. Tennant is revered in the pain community because […]

All I Want For Christmas Is For People Not To Hurt

https://www.acsh.org/news/2017/12/12/all-i-want-christmas-people-not-hurt-12271 I could never have imagined that I would ever see the cruelty that is now being inflicted upon pain patients – people who have to live their lives under conditions that are so horrible that the rest of us can’t possibly fathom the level of suffering they must endure. It was bad enough a decade […]

And they wonder why insurance premiums and cost of Medicare/Medicaid is UP…UP…UP… ?

When my mate picked up this month’s prescriptions for me the pharmacy tech told him they will not dispense any of my pain pills next month unless I talk to the pharmacist about NarCan injectors! I just got off the phone from talking to the pharmacist – this asinine requirement comes from the lunatic Kansas […]