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Dems Are Partying With Lobbyists In Puerto Rico While Government Employees Are Losing Their Homes https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bethbaumann/2019/01/12/dems-are-partying-with-lobbyists-in-puerto-rico-while-government-employees-are-lo-n2538964 Spotted: Sen. Bob Menendez on the beach at a resort in Puerto Rico on Day 22 of the partial government shutdown. Reports say dozens of Dems are in PR for the CHC BOLD PAC winter retreat — including meetings […]
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Report: Americans Are Now More Likely To Die Of An Opioid Overdose Than On The Road https://www.npr.org/2019/01/14/684695273/report-americans-are-now-more-likely-to-die-of-an-opioid-overdose-than-on-the-ro For the first time in U.S. history, a leading cause of deaths — vehicle crashes — has been surpassed in likelihood by opioid overdoses, according to a new report on preventable deaths from the National Safety Council. Americans […]
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Oregon’s illegal drug users rewarded as chronic pain patients suffer https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/opinion/2019/01/11/oregons-illegal-drug-users-rewarded-chronic-pain-patients-suffer/2548946002/ As a general practitioner, I have seen the “good,” the “bad,” and the “ugly” of the “opioid epidemic.” The “good” happens when patients are stabilized on their analgesics and able to return to work or volunteer and regain a better quality of life. Clinically […]
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Chronic-pain patients suffer as agencies try to regulate addiction https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/opinion/2019/01/11/chronic-pain-patients-suffer-agencies-try-regulate-addiction/2548890002/ Could the fact that a prescriber CHANGES or DELETES a pt’s diagnosis and replaced it with a diagnosis does not fit the pt’s health condition be considered MALPRACTICE particularly if the “new therapy” causes the pt’s quality of life to deteriorate ? And the prescriber […]
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Some of us have regularly discussed why many in the chronic pain community do not seem to be connected in general. I have been paying attention to the number of “likes” verses the number of “shares” There in may lie the problem… according to what I have read when someone “likes” on a post or […]
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Four lawsuits have been filed so far. I have joined 2 so far and will be joining the other 2 this week. Please join all of them if you can. Especially if you or someone you love is in pain and being tortured because of opioid hysteria and lies that the CDC publicly admitted to […]
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The No. 1 takeaway from the 2019 JP Morgan Healthcare Conference: It’s the platform, stupid Written by Dan Michelson, CEO, Strata Decision Technology | January 11, 2019 | https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/hospital-management-administration/the-no-1-takeaway-from-the-2019-jp-morgan-healthcare-conference-it-s-the-platform-stupid.html#disqus_thread This is very interesting “crystal ball view” into the way that healthcare is provided and received. Some of my readers have some difficulty to understanding the larger picture […]
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We’re doing an ongoing series about the opioid epidemic https://politico.forms.fm/opioid-epidemic/forms/4903 We’re doing an ongoing series about the opioid epidemic, which is arguably America’s biggest public health crisis since AIDS. Opioids (including legal painkillers, heroin and fentanyl) killed a record 42,000 people in 2016, and death rates are rising, according to the CDC. We want to […]
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https://www.acsh.org/news/2018/11/21/little-state-debunks-big-lie-deas-opioid-scam-13614 It’s more than a little ironic that the state motto for New Hampshire is: “Live Free or Die” Because it conflicts with a new motto I have just made up. Since we are nothing if not economical here at ACSH I figured that I could save time and energy coming up with new mottos for […]
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