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Health Insurance Is Not Assurance Of Healthcare
Posted on March 2, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve
Health Insurance Is Not Assurance Of Healthcare https://www.news-line.com/PH_news28a250_enews Because of high out-of-pocket expenses, Ohioans who purchase subsidized health-exchange insurance often can’t afford the care they need when they need it. That is a central finding of a new study from researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. Examining a total of nearly 43,000 […]
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Watch John Oliver Reveal Scams of America’s $35 Billion Rehab Industry
Posted on March 2, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve
Watch John Oliver Reveal Scams of America’s $35 Billion Rehab Industry www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-news/watch-john-oliver-reveal-scams-of-americas-35-billion-rehab-industry-627776/ Rehab centers are cripplingly expensive, are often unscientific – most frightening – are “dangerously unregulated,” John Oliver said on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight. The comedian exposed a frequently obscured dark side of the $35 billion industry, which encompasses over 14,500 drug treatment facilities […]
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Opioid crisis — Since when does the government write prescriptions?
Posted on March 2, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve
Watch the latest video at foxnews.com https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/since-when-does-the-government-write-prescriptions Opioid-related deaths nationwide jumped four-fold in the last two decades, and the epidemic has made major inroads in the Eastern states, according to a new study by a U.S.- Canadian research team. The team found that “the life expectancy lost at age 15 years from opioids is now greater […]
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Chris Cornell’s Widow Implores Congress to Act on Opioid Crisis: His ‘Death Was Not Inevitable’
Posted on March 2, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve
Chris Cornell’s Widow Implores Congress to Act on Opioid Crisis: His ‘Death Was Not Inevitable’ https://people.com/music/chris-cornell-congress-opioid-crisis/ Though Chris Cornell’s death in 2017 was ruled a suicide, his wife, Vicky, has said she believes the effects of a prescription drug may have played a role in the tragedy By Brianne Tracy February 26, 2019 03:09 PM Vicky […]
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Never Let an Opioid Crisis Go to Waste
Posted on March 2, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve
Never Let an Opioid Crisis Go to Waste www.spectator.org/never-let-an-opioid-crisis-go-to-waste/#.XHoQbpuLcZw.facebook When the Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis advised the President to declare a national emergency to deal with the overdose epidemic, HHS Secretary Tom Price wisely suggested that this step wouldn’t be particularly useful: “[T]he opioid crisis at this point can be […]
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