Are restrictions on opioids a threat to human rights?

Posted on April 30, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/are-restrictions-on-opioids-a-threat-to-human-rights/2018/04/30/42c7ac32-4c86-11e8-af46-b1d6dc0d9bfe_story.html Fatal overdoses of prescription opioids were rare before 1999. Then doctors, influenced by pharmaceutical industry marketing, began prescribing them for chronic non-cancer pain. By the end of 2016, prescription opioids — not illicit heroin or fentanyl — had claimed 200,000 lives. Now, at last, the opioid wave has crested. Per capita usage declined for […]

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Pts have a responsibility for abusing opiates & addictive behavior ?

Posted on April 30, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve

On opioid lawsuits, powerful Texas Republican says there is blame to go around https://www.lmtonline.com/local/texas-politics/quorum-report/article/On-opioid-lawsuits-powerful-Texas-Republican-12875964.php AUSTIN — As Texas House lawmakers investigate what the state’s response should be to the growing opioid crisis here and around the nation, tort reformers are growing concerned that trial lawyers are “unethically” recruiting clients to go after big pharmaceutical companies. […]

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