‘I want to offer an alternative’

Posted on July 25, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve

‘I want to offer an alternative’: Local Navy vet, pharmacist wants to fight against opioid crisis https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/health/i-want-to-offer-an-alternative-local-navy-vet-pharmacist-wants-to-fight-against-opioid-crisis/77-576949970 “It’s not just the person shooting heroin on the street, it’s what’s in your medicine cabinet and why you keep going back for that,” he said. “I want to offer an alternative that doctors can write for.” Author: […]

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Amid the opioid crisis, some seriously ill people risk losing drugs they depend on

Posted on July 25, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve

http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/health/ct-opioid-crisis-seriously-ill-risk-losing-drugs-depend-20180716-story.html Julie Anne Feinstein had overcome a lifetime of adversity when she began taking daily medication for pain 10 years ago at age 68, prescriptions that would eventually land her at the center of the nation’s opioid crisis. She had survived paralyzing childhood polio to become a skiing, mountain-climbing teenager near her home in Oregon. […]

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