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www.rxinjuryhelp.com/news/2018/03/02/unnecessary-use-of-fluoroquinolone-antibiotics-prompts-new-cdc-warning/ The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) is now warning doctors to prescribe fluoroquinolone antibiotics – a class of drugs that includes Levaquin, Avelox and Cipro – only when “absolutely necessary” because of their potential to cause serious adverse events. Fluoroquinolones Often Prescribed for Uncomplicated UTIs, Viral Respiratory Conditions The CDC warning follows the […]

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It is amazing how the media can start down one story path and end up with prescribers and legal opiates being the problem..  Here is a kid that is suppose to be the 16th best hockey player in the USA.  Apparently a over achiever, nothing wrong with that… but apparently accepted a offer from someone […]

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Kentucky House votes to tax opioids to close budget gap http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/kentucky-house-votes-tax-opioids-close-budget-gap-53447557 For six years, a pharmaceutical distributor sent more than 50 million doses of prescription opioids to five eastern Kentucky counties, enough for every person there to have 417 pills each. Kentucky’s attorney general has sued that company and others like it. Thursday, state lawmakers […]

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https://www.medpagetoday.com/publichealthpolicy/opioids/71434 WASHINGTON — Interoperability, predictive analytics, e-prescribing: these were some of the terms buzzing around the dais at a hearing of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on Tuesday. The focus of the hearing was to solicit expert input on the role of technology and data in addressing the opioid crisis. The committee […]

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http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/375903-lawmakers-seek-information-on-curbing-opioid-addition-in-medicare Top Republicans and Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee are requesting information from critical stakeholders on how to prevent and treat opioid addiction in Medicare, as the panel seeks to craft bipartisan legislation to curb the opioid epidemic. Specifically, they’re asking insurers, benefit managers, providers and prescribers to submit information on how the […]

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tps://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/americas-heroin-epidemic/attorney-general-jeff-sessions-really-going-war-against-big-pharma-n852136 When Attorney General Jeff Sessions appears Thursday at a White House opioids summit, skeptics are likely to hit him with this question: Was his “statement of interest” in support of local governments suing Big Pharma a declaration of war — or saber-rattling? Defense attorneys who have crossed swords with the federal government before, and […]

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From a chronic pain pt: I just tried to get my morphine filled. I take six pill day  15 mg.  the pharmacist said he can only fill 5.6 pills per day . So my dr has to write new perscription.  Any input Steve.  Forcing everyone on Hospice ? My recommendation: Ask the pharmacist where that […]

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  Inhumane Torture Post Surgery Torture exists in the United States in 2018 for people seeking medical treatment for chronic conditions. This strong lady went into the hospital to have subtemporal decompression. Subtemporal decompression is removal of part of the temporal skull bone for relief of intracranial pressure. She was in the hospital for only […]

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Silver Scripts is in the top three Part D providers… I have had this Part D program since 06/2012 and Barb has been with this company since 01/2006. Yesterday I did this post:  Maybe you should find another company ! My monthly premiums for this policy has been done as a automatic ACH thru the […]

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