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https://youtu.be/vwkjOPnl3iY ***This video is the formal plea from 9 people (Susie Meneely, Reva Parker, Heidi Hines-Shattuck, Bree Wilson, Dawn Anderson, Cherie Sandretzky, Jessie Ray & *Suzanne Stewart (*the producer & editor of this video) who are also living with chronic pain. This is a very short piece of their stories and a very big plea […]
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Death in Missouri Preventable by Sarah Simons https://sick-of-suffering.blogspot.com/2019/02/death-in-missouri-preventable-by-sarah.html February 07, 2019 This death was most likely preventable :'( this makes me so angry inside. On my very first pain mgmt. visit I first had to meet with a pain psychologist who had carefully and meticulously reviewed my medical file. One of his opening questions to me was, […]
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Chains’ ties run deep on pharmacy boards By Kevin McCoy, USA TODAYDec 30, 2009 9:48 PM ET https://abcnews.go.com/Business/story When the Illinois Board of Pharmacy meets, Philip Burgess, national director of pharmacy affairs at Walgreens wag, the Illinois-based firm that’s the nation’s largest drugstore chain in sales and profits, chairs the sessions. Michael Podgurski, vice president […]
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Walgreens has worst record among pharmacies for selling tobacco products to minors https://www.bizjournals.com/chicago/news/2019/02/07/walgreens-poor-record-for-selling-minors-tobacco.html The kids hanging around your local Walgreens may be buying more than candy. Walgreens has the worst record among pharmacies regarding selling tobacco products to minors, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Thursday. The Deerfield, Illinois-based pharmacy racked up about 1,800 […]
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https://youtu.be/R16GXtgSzUE https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/03/health-risk-scores-opioid-abuse-1139978 Companies are starting to sell “risk scores” to doctors, insurers and hospitals to identify patients at risk of opioid addiction or overdose, without patient consent and with little regulation of the kinds of personal information used to create the scores. While the data collection is aimed at helping doctors make more informed […]
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http://fortune.com/2019/02/05/hawaii-smoking-age-100/ Next time a centenarian tells an interviewer they’ve reached old age while smoking a pack of cigarettes a day, it won’t be a Hawaiian. That’s assuming a bill passes that would raise the smoking age on the archipelago to 100 by the year 2024. The bill is the handiwork of state representative Richard Creagan, […]
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Federal Prosecutors Warn Top Opioid Prescribers in Wisconsin Wisconsin’s two U.S. Attorneys have sent letters to 180 physicians, physician assistants and nurse practitioners in the state warning them that their opioid prescribing practices could result in prosecution. None of the prescribers have been charged with a crime and it’s not clear if any are under […]
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https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/sustainability/1-3-doctors-say-prior-authorization-has-led-serious-adverse It just keeps getting worse. That’s a major finding of an AMA survey of 1,000 practicing physicians who were asked about the impact prior authorization (PA) is having on their ability to help their patients. More than nine in 10 respondents said PA had a significant or somewhat negative clinical impact, with 28 percent reporting that prior authorization had led to a serious […]
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Thank you Anonymous. Everyone out there please share this. Paste it to your page, news outlets, change the State and send it to your board of pharmacy, etc. Maybe someone will listen. Dear Members of the Mississippi State Board of Pharmacy, I am writing to beg for you to act in the interests of the […]
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