If you do the math on opiate Rxs and OD’s

Posted on February 3, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve

This chart is suppose to be based on DATA from the “all-knowing – always right” CDC.. opiate  prescriptions in 2016 where at about the same level as 2006 ..maybe slightly DOWN.. and the number of OD’s almost DOUBLED in the same time frame. They claim that there is 100 million chronic pain pts…  reality is […]

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Jeff Sadow: Drug abuse not alleviated by lawsuit abuse

Posted on February 3, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve

http://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/jeff_sadow/article_619b44b4-0796-11e8-ba46-6bf98cb386a1.html Louisiana’s elected officials seem determined to write the wrong prescription to combat opioid abuse. Tracking the rest of the country, Louisiana has seen a sharp escalation in painkiller usage over the past few years and deaths associated with it. Worse, this has accelerated faster than in most states, in 2016 resulting in an age-adjusted […]

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INFORMATION FOR RESEARCH ON EUTHANASIA, PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE, LIVING WILLS, MERCY KILLING

Posted on February 3, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve

http://www.euthanasia.com/index.html  

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DOJ not cooperating with opioid investigation, House committee chairman says

Posted on February 3, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve

https://www.wvgazettemail.com/news/politics/doj-not-cooperating-with-opioid-investigation-house-committee-chairman-says/article_a2ee606f-57b4-5276-a1b7-57d9b546c0cc.html WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS — A congressional committee chairman investigating how drug companies dumped millions of painkillers into small-town pharmacies around the country said he’s facing resistance from within the executive branch. Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., said Friday at a GOP congressional retreat at The Greenbrier resort that authorities like the Drug Enforcement Agency are […]

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Reporter: looking for interviews, with clinicians or patients about cardiac surgery patients — without a history of opioid use– denied opioids after surgery;

Posted on February 3, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve

For a Monday reporting deadline, Art Levine, a freelancer for Newsweek, Yahoo News and other publications, is looking for on the record or-or off the record interviews, with clinicians or patients about cardiac surgery patients — without a history of opioid use– denied opioids after surgery; he’s been told that’s happening, but doesn’t have any […]

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Corporations are responsible for all the actions of their employees ?

Posted on February 3, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve

Utah nursing home must pay entire $1.4M jury award in death of patient who was given the wrong medicine, appeals court rules https://www.sltrib.com/news/2018/02/02/utah-nursing-home-must-pay-entire-14m-jury-award-in-death-of-patient-who-was-given-the-wrong-medicine-appeal-court-rules/ When a jury decided three years ago that a Utah care facility should pay nearly $1 million to the family of a patient who died after a nurse mistakenly gave him the […]

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