When medical bureaucrats are “all-knowing and all-powerful”… yet blatantly ignorant ?

Posted on March 27, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve

As this reads, it would appear that the state’s medical board has instructed  all prescribers in the state to reduce the number of opiates prescriptions. So the medical board is denying/discriminating against all pts who are covered by the Americans with Disability Act and Civil Rights Act appropriate care. So bureaucrats at the STATE LEVEL […]

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After 50 yrs and > 1 TRILLION.. DEA needs more staffing.. to keep digging a “deeper hole” ?

Posted on March 27, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve

DEA adds 250 more task force officers to fight opioid crisis http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/380543-dea-adds-250-more-task-force-officers-to-fight-opioid-crisis The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is deploying 250 additional task force officers and dozens more analysts across the U.S. in an effort to crackdown on the opioid epidemic. The additional manpower will be in areas the epidemic has hit the hardest, the DEA […]

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Apparently CVS believes that they have the authority to practice medicine ?

Posted on March 27, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve

Hi, I apologize for not reading thru your web site. But I am in pain since CVS has made my doctor decrease my pain medicines in half to the dose that gave me relief. Right now I am in pain. Please tell me where to turn. I am a 56 yr old with multiple spinal […]

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two opioid epidemics: One is the opioid addiction and overdose epidemic. The other is people with chronic pain being forgotten. They’re being ignored

Posted on March 27, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve

‘Gun-shy’ doctors and the second opioid crisis: patients in chronic pain The addiction epidemic has led to a clampdown on legit prescriptions. www.billypenn.com/2018/03/27/gun-shy-doctors-and-the-second-opioid-crisis-patients-in-chronic-pain/ Growing up, Amie was always double-jointed. Compared to her peers, she could extend her joints far past what was normal. For some kids, double-jointedness is like a party trick. But as Amie […]

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Prince’s toxicology report indicates he had excessively high levels of the drug fentanyl in his system

Posted on March 27, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/03/26/princes-toxicology-report-indicates-had-excessively-high-levels-drug-fentanyl-in-his-system.html A newly-discovered report gives a much clearer picture as to Prince’s cause of death in 2016. According to a toxicology report obtained by the Associated Press from Prince’s autopsy, he had what experts call an “exceedingly high” concentration of fentanyl in his body at the time of his death. For those unfamiliar, fentanyl is […]

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