Sessions to opioid distributors: ‘I’m not shedding any tears if you’re no longer making profits’

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/sessions-to-opioid-distributors-im-not-shedding-any-tears-if-youre-no-longer-making-profits/2018/05/01/5d4168f2-4d42-11e8-af46-b1d6dc0d9bfe_story.html Next week, top executives from the nation’s largest distributors of prescription painkillers will testify before Congress about the role their companies played in the deadliest drug crisis in U.S. history. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said that if he were still senator, he would have tough questions and choice words for the company executives. “This […]

Indiana Board of Pharmacy: there are no formal complaints against Dr. Robert Bigler

CVS and Walmart Pharmacies have stopped filling Lafayette Dr. Robert Bigler’s pain pill prescriptions. Patients are left wondering why. http://www.wlfi.com/content/news/Dr-Bigler-Folo-483631721.html LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) – CVS and Walmart Pharmacies have stopped filling Lafayette Dr. Robert Bigler’s pain pill prescriptions. Patients are left wondering why. For pharmacies no longer accepting Dr. Robert Bigler’s prescriptions, Brian McIntosh has […]

Kolodny: 90 MME is an “extremely high, dangerous dose.”

Lost in the battle to create fewer new patients addicted to opioids: Longtime pain patients http://www.philly.com/philly/health/addiction/chronic-pain-patients-opioid-prescribing-limits-medicare-20180524.html Krissy Houser is one of many chronic pain patients who are feeling besieged by new government and insurance company policies limiting prescription opioids. The Bucks County woman was taking high doses of the highly addictive pain medications until her […]

Something I have never done in my SIX YEARS of blogging..

https://youtu.be/VJb7J4K74js     Several weeks ago I woke up one morning with a high end of the pain scale pain going down my right leg. Years ago I had a sciatic nerve flare and the pain seem to be very familiar from back then.  I had a fair number of opiates on hand … so […]