Opioid-Related Emergency Department Visits, Hospitalization Rates Decrease From 2009 to 2015

Posted on August 24, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve

Opioid-Related Emergency Department Visits, Hospitalization Rates Decrease From 2009 to 2015 https://www.clinicaladvisor.com/pain-information-center/opioid-benzodiazepine-ed-visits-hospitalization-rates-decrease/article/790991/ For patients taking chronic opioids with or without an overlapping benzodiazepine prescription, the rate of emergency department (ED) visits and hospitalizations decreased in the United States from 2009 to 2015, according to a study published in The Clinical Journal of Pain.   Researchers […]

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We are not even showing up with a “knife” for a “gun fight”

Posted on August 24, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve

http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/403060-sessions-moves-to-block-two-ohio-doctors-from-prescribing-opioids Attorney General Jeff Sessions made the announcement in a speech in Ohio on Wednesday. He said the action was the first of its kind and a sign of how serious the administration is about fighting the opioid epidemic. The DOJ said the doctors had been served this week with temporary restraining orders preventing them […]

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Tom Frieden, Former CDC Director, Arrested And Charged With Sexual Abuse, Harassment

Posted on August 24, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve

Tom Frieden, Former CDC Director, Arrested And Charged With Sexual Abuse, Harassment https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/tom-frieden-sexual-misconduct-arrested_us_5b802c24e4b0729515128be4 Tom Frieden, the former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was arrested Friday morning and charged with forcible touching, sexual abuse and harassment. Frieden allegedly grabbed a 55-year-old woman’s buttocks inside his residence in Brooklyn in October, according to […]

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he took one-fourth of what he thought was a Xanax pill from a friend… Now, he’s gone forever

Posted on August 24, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve

Mom looks to share her son’s tragic story at healthy opioid summit https://www.wkrn.com/special-reports/opioid-crisis/mom-looks-to-share-her-son-s-tragic-story-at-healthy-opioid-summit/1392183037 NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – It’s been almost three years since Carrie Luther lost her son Tosh to an overdose.  “He made a mistake and took something that wasn’t what he thought it was,” Luther said. “Now, he’s gone forever.”  Luther says her son was […]

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