WA State: Changes to Opioid Prescribing and Monitoring

Posted on November 29, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve

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large-scale humanitarian issue: forced opioid tapering in patients receiving long-term prescription opioid therapy for chronic pain

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International Stakeholder Community of Pain Experts and Leaders Call for an Urgent Action on Forced Opioid Tapering https://academic.oup.com/painmedicine/advance-article/doi/10.1093/pm/pny228/5218985 Beth D Darnall, PhD David Juurlink, MD, PhD, FRCPC, FAACT, FACMT Robert D Kerns, PhD Sean Mackey, MD, PhD Brent Van Dorsten, PhD Keith Humphreys, PhD Julio A Gonzalez-Sotomayor, MD Andrea Furlan, MD, PhD Adam J Gordon, […]

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Is getting Prescriptions – IN THE MAIL – SAFE ?

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Virginia moves to limit mail-order specialty pharmacies following concerns of mishandling medicines for complex conditions https://www.richmond.com/virginia-moves-to-limit-mail-order-pharmacies-following-concerns-of/article_43d79bec-a732-5434-ac0c-bec7e420e246.html Shortly after Loretta Boesing’s son took medication delivered to the family’s home in Missouri on a hot summer day in 2012, he ended up in the hospital as the liver transplant he’d received at the age of 2 began […]

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I sent yours, can you forward mine? Please read 28th amendment Please Read, and forward. This will only take 1 minute to read! 28th Amendment, 35 States and Counting. It will take you less than a minute to read this. If you agree, please pass it on. It’s an idea whose time has come to […]

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