Treatment for the opiate crisis – creating another crisis ? – who could have seen this coming ?

Posted on June 30, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve

Kids’ Exposure to Buprenorphine Skyrockets https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/898671 The number of children aged 19 years and younger exposed to buprenorphine, an opiate widely prescribed to treat pain and opioid use disorder, has been rising since 2007, according to a study published online June 25 in Pediatrics. Researchers led by Sara Post, MS, from the Center for Injury […]

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husband called Winn-Dixie corporate and they said the Pharmacist was just outright lying to you !

Posted on June 30, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve

My husband was getting his medication at Winn-Dixie and had been getting it for several years and after 3 weeks of waiting the pharmacist told him he no longer fit the criteria and he asked what was that he said he didn’t know but corporate told them so my husband called corporate and they said […]

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The Myth of Morphine Equivalent Daily Dosage

Posted on June 30, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve

The Myth of Morphine Equivalent Daily Dosage https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/863477 For far too many years, pain researchers and clinicians have relied on the concept of the morphine equivalent daily dosage (MEDD), or some variant of it, as a means of comparing the “relative corresponding quantity” of the numerous opioid molecules that are important tools in the treatment […]

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