Kolodny: 24/7 opiates for chronic pain has more RISKS than BENEFITS….“nobody is calling them addicts”

http://www.sj-r.com/news/20180324/chronic-pain-patients-losing-access-to-prescription-painkillers-advocates-say Before Cynthia Bly used up the last of her prescription of pain pills in January, she was able to do the dishes, cook meals and take short walks with her husband outside their rural Springfield home. Now that the 64-year-old former office worker no longer has access to hydrocodone, an opioid pain reliever, the […]

U.S. Attorney General says it’s time to get tough on opioid traffickers, again calls for death penalty in some caes

www.thecapitolist.com/u-s-attorney-general-says-its-time-to-get-tough-on-opioid-traffickers-again-calls-for-death-penalty-in-some-caes/ U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions was in Tallahassee Thursday afternoon where he announced a new initiative that he says will take drug traffickers off the street and put them in prison cells, and suggested the death penalty be handed down  “in drug trafficking cases where it is appropriate to do so.” “Today, I am […]