Grading The President’s Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis

Posted on June 2, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve

https://www.acsh.org/news/2017/11/03/grading-president%E2%80%99s-commission-combating-drug-addiction-and-opioid-crisis-12078 A long-awaited report from the President’s Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis, with strategies to combat it, was just issued by The White House. The document is over 130 pages long and consists of 56 recommendations designed to get a handle on what should more accurately be called “the fentanyl crisis.” Some of the […]

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EMTs get access to safer opioid alternative

Posted on June 2, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve

http://www.abc27.com/news/local/harrisburg/emts-get-access-to-safer-opioid-alternative/1211020191 HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) – Susquehanna Township EMS responds to a handful of medical calls every day. First responders are often responding to pain related issues, which has become a difficult condition to treat because of the opioid crisis. Now they have a new pain reliever that’s less harmful than opioids. “What we’re used to […]

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The Government’s Cure for the Opioid Epidemic May Be Worse Than the Disease

Posted on June 2, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve

https://reason.com/reasontv/2018/06/01/how-the-government-made-the-opioid-crisi Politicians and journalists often tell a story about greedy pharmaceutical companies that turned doctors into dealers and patients into addicts. And now, we’re told, tens of thousands of Americans are dying of overdoses every year because of government inaction. If this is truly an epidemic, the diagnosis is wrong in a few major ways. […]

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