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Sessions: Opioid Prescriptions at 18-Year Low www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2018/10/25/sessions-opioid-prescriptions-at-18-year-low Opioid prescriptions in the United States fell by 12 percent in the first eight months of 2018 and will decline even further in coming years, according to Attorney General Jeff Sessions. “We now have the lowest opioid prescription rates in 18 years.  And we’re going to bring them […]

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End-Of-Life Care Group Reaches Key Benchmarks In Helping Health Care Providers, Communities Statewide Prepare For Medical Aid-In-Dying Law https://www.news-line.com/PH_news27492_enews Compassion & Choices Hawai’i today announced that its public education campaign about the Our Care, Our Choice Act has met several key benchmarks in preparation for the law to take effect on January 1, 2019 Signed […]

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Suicide Over Pain- Telling My Brothers Story Because he can’t https://hudsonvalleydoctorskilledmybrother.wordpress.com/2018/09/14/suicide-over-pain-telling On August 29th 2018 our house phone rang at 4 am, we ignored it thinking more than likely it was a wrong number because no one we know would call at that time and if they did for some reason they would leave a […]

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https://youtu.be/Ud7nKLX-pho RESPONSE TO ROSANNE CONNER’S OPIOID OVERDOSE | A MESSAGE TO ABC

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From Red Lawhern, Ph.D. On January 1, 2019, new rules for Medicare Part D reimbursement will go into effect. These rules authorize insurance providers to conduct so-called “safety edits” when a patient’s prescriptions exceed one of two thresholds. Pharmacist and Doctor must conduct a safety review and file a special diagnostic code before the pharmacist […]

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Afzal Beemath, MD http://doctorsofcourage.org/afzal-beemath-md/ Forty-two year-old internist Afzal Beemath, MD runs a hospice and palliative care clinic in Lathrup Village, MI. On October 23, 2018, he was indicted, arrested, and placed in jail by false accusations for legitimate patient care. His clinic is closed indefinitely. Where do his patients go? Most of them will probably […]

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Hitler’s secret Nazi program that killed thousands of disabled people  

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Methamphetamine Roils Rural Towns Again Across The U.S. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/10/25/656192849/methamphetamine-roils-rural-towns-again-across-the-u-s The sharp rise in opioid abuse and fatal overdoses has overshadowed another mounting drug problem: Methamphetamine use is rising across the United States. “Usage of methamphetamine nationally is at an all-time high,” says Erik Smith, assistant special agent in charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Kansas […]

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Only 46 lives per day are lost to the class of opioids used to treat pain (CDC data). Not 115. When you factor out heroin, fentanyl, & methadone, it’s 46. And 50% of these died because they took the painkiller with another substance. Possibly alcohol. Actually, it’s usually alcohol. But it might also be a […]

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