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Failure to provide adequate pain medication to people with disabilities violates our civil rights under the U. S. Supreme Court’s OLMSTEAD (1999) and the Americans with Disabilities Act by preventing us from becoming “integrated into the community to the fullest extent possible”, owning homes, working, enjoying family and friends and interacting with non-disabled people. Segregation […]

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http://www.wlox.com/story/37924468/the-opioid-crises-hurts-those-in-pain-even-more BILOXI, MS (WLOX) – We’ve all heard about the opioid epidemic and the efforts of law enforcement to crack down on abuse.  However, there’s another side of the debate that often gets overlooked: the thousands of people who depend on controlled narcotics to remedy their chronic pain. Dottie Lyons is one of those people.   Lyons can […]

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http://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/news/aetna-whistleblower-accuses-cvs-healths-caremark-fraud-medicare-part-d-drug-prices An unsealed 2014 lawsuit by an Aetna actuary whistleblower against CVS Caremark, the insurer’s pharmacy benefit manager, accuses the PBM of billing the government for prescription drugs at a greater price than it pays to pharmacies. The PBM did not disclose to Aetna how much it was being paid by the pharmacies, nor that […]

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I just never know what is going to show up in my INBOX..  Apparently this little piece is fresh off the digital presses from apparently late yesterday or early this AM. Back in Dec 2017 I had this post on my blog  CVS Pharmacy Will Limit Prescriptions for Opioids Apparently those who have Caremark as […]

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https://reason.com/blog/2018/04/09/medicare-agency-retreats-from-arbitrary Under the final rule, pharmacists may fill high-dose opioid prescriptions as long as they verify them. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has retreated from a proposed rule that would have forced many patients to choose between living in agony and shelling out thousands of dollars more every year for pain medication. […]

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https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/09/health/parkinsons-drug-nuplazid-invs/index.html Two years ago, Brendan Tyne pleaded with the Food and Drug Administration to approve a drug that he was hopeful could finally bring his mother some peace. She could no longer move without assistance and had fallen victim to the debilitating and frightening psychosis that haunts many people with Parkinson’s disease. “She thinks there […]

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https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2018/4/7/how-the-cdc-guidelines-killed-my-mother Sheila Ramsey, Guest Columnist For the past year, I have been reading the heartbreaking stories being posted about the degrading and inhumane treatment of the elderly, critically ill and disabled persons by our government, healthcare institutions and physicians. And all I can do is sit here and cry, thinking about the struggles that my […]

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http://abc7chicago.com/health/cdc-nightmare-bacteria-found-in-27-states-including-illinois/3301883/ CHICAGO — “Nightmare bacteria” with unusual resistance to antibiotics of last resort were found more than 200 times in the United States last year in a first-of-a-kind hunt to see how much of a threat these rare cases are becoming, health officials said Tuesday. That’s more than they had expected to find, and the […]

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I’ve been going to Alma, AR Walgreens for 3-4  years every month same day. Same Doctor, same medications (Pain). I am disabled under SSA guidelines. I have medicare. I am under a Pain Specialist’s care. I go each month Walgteens Pharmacist Tara refused to fill my on time valid scripts (my doctor prints out the […]

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https://mtrx2010.livejournal.com/492.html The 90mg ceiling recently placed on my medications has created a health crisis for me. I have written this as a testimony to my injuries, medical condition, and how the 90mg ceiling is affecting me. – On March 7 2018 I became a victim of the new 90MG ceiling placed on all opioid pain […]

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