Oregon: 67K Medicaid pts told to say goodbye to their opiate pain management

Posted on December 7, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve

https://katu.com/news/local/oregon-task-force-backs-controversial-opioid-plan BEND, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon proposal to expand alternative treatments for certain chronic pain conditions while limiting the use of opioids has moved forward with minimal changes, despite outcries from chronic pain patients and criticism from pain experts across the country. The Bulletin reports that the state’s Chronic Pain Task Force, an ad […]

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there was no way the urine test could have been wrong

Posted on December 7, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve

Hi, my name is Tom, I am using my wife’s account to write you. My wife, Jane, has been advocating for a long time now. Unfortunately, she fell during a doctor’s off, face first off of the exam table. That was the beginning of the nightmare that I now find her in today. She is […]

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Kolodny: in favor of taxes on legal pharma opiates – to reduce their use

Posted on December 7, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve

Why states might start taxing opioids The next wave of state actions against the opioid crisis may focus on taxing them — depending on the outcome of an industry lawsuit against New York, the first state to try it. Between the lines: Most of the bills that have been proposed would tax opioid painkillers and […]

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