PHARMACIST STEVE

Hello Steve, I am a 100% Disabled Vietnam Era Veteran. I am a retired USPS letter carrier. My wife passed away and I had lost our family plan health insurance. Though I am covered by the VA it is an hour drive from my home. Once  there I may wait for hours to see a […]

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The our health care system.. when I first started as a pharmacist… it was pretty much you had a DISEASE or you DIDN’T.. Today we have all sorts of PRE-disease CONDITIONS…  think of pre-diabetes,  pre-hypertension… sometimes when I get frustrated with someone wanting to discuss all of these PRE-ISSUES on someone’s health… I try to […]

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Comment So glad I found you. I am a 62 year male who has been suffering from chronic back and neck pain for the last 15 years. I have been under the care of pain management specialist here in Fort Worth Texas for the last 13 years. I was able to put a 10 hour […]

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Opioid-related deaths in Ontario jump 52 per cent in 2017 compared to year before Opioid-related deaths in Ontario increased by 52 per cent from January to October 2017 compared to the same period the year before, according to newly released data from the provincial government. The province said there were 1,053 opioid-related deaths during the […]

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 I read your article in Drug Topics titled ‘when valid prescriptions are refused’. I would like to explain a situation that happened today with a pharmacist and get your professional advice. The pharmacist called my mother this afternoon and said he refused to fill her prescription because he requires a code, which is for the […]

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http://www.foxnews.com/health/2018/03/06/er-visits-for-suspected-opioid-overdoses-shot-up-last-year-by-30-midwest-increased-70.html Emergency visits for suspected opioid overdoses shot up 30 percent from the third quarter of 2016 to third quarter 2017, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  During a briefing of the latest Vital Signs report, CDC’s Acting Director Dr. Anne Schuchat said overall the most dramatic increases were in the Midwest, […]

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I was 2 weeks away from my PM appointment and have been so stressed reading all these negative articles and wanted some type of piece of mind to know that if my  medications were pulled because of all the fake news on pain meds and no concern for chronic pain people I decided to give […]

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https://youtu.be/-lLMiKCsCqU   https://cannabis.net/blog/news/28-members-of-congress-sue-the-dea-to-reschedule-cbd In yet another greedy, baseless move, the Drug Enforcement Agency ruled that cannabidiol (CBD) is considered a Schedule 1 substance, alongside heroin, reports MJBizDaily. However, 28 members of Congress are requesting a federal appeals court to scrap this decision. On Thursday, the Congress members filed a brief which is now awaiting action […]

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https://gizmodo.com/doctors-are-protesting-medicare-change-that-would-let-p-1823544391 In response to the opioid epidemic that is killing tens of thousands of Americans a year, the U.S. government is poised to further restrict the amount of opioids Medicare patients can have access to at any one time, via a policy that would tell pharmacies to reject certain prescriptions on the spot. But a […]

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http://www.lasvegasnow.com/news/i-team-opioid-addiction-versus-dependency/987514320 LAS VEGAS – Millions of chronic pain patients, already living in agony because of disease or injuries, now live in fear that their medicine will be taken away because they’ve been stigmatized as drug addicts. News stories about opioid overdoses are pretty common, but few of those who overdose are pain patients. Ninety percent of […]

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