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New Jersey approves bill allowing terminally ill patients the right to die https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/435782-new-jersey-approves-bill-allowing-terminally-ill-patients-the-right-to New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) on Monday announced he will approve a bill that allows physicians to provide lethal prescriptions to terminally ill patients who want to die. “Allowing terminally ill and dying residents the dignity to make end-of-life decisions according […]

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Blaming Prescription Pain Pills For The Opioid Epidemic Is Fake News How negligent media have helped inflate a deadly moral panic over prescription opioids and ignored the real sources of addiction, while hurting people who live with devastating chronic pain. https://thefederalist.com/2019/03/26/blaming-prescription-pain-pills-opioid-epidemic-fake-news/ Angela Kennecke is a popular reporter for a television news station in my hometown […]

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CVS asked us to fill out a “safety” survey and how well our teams adhered to policies and procedures for safe practices… Then they left a comment space at the end, which I dutifully filled in. This is a CVS pharmacist’s response to the corporation’s how Rx dept staff are: how well our teams adhered […]

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Bayer, J&J settle thousands of US Xarelto lawsuits for $775 million https://www.mdlinx.com/pharmacy/top-medical-news/article/2019/03/26/7561883/ Bayer AG and Johnson & Johnson have agreed to settle more than 25,000 US lawsuits alleging that their blockbuster blood thinner Xarelto (rivaroxaban) caused unstoppable and in some cases fatal bleeding for a total of $775 million, court documents on Monday showed. The […]

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For those who are skeptical about how important the $$$ collected by the FEDS using CIVIL ASSET FORFEITURE ACT…  here is a list from SEVEN DIFFERENT FEDERAL AGENCIES and the lists of property that was seized/confiscated by the FEDS https://www.forfeiture.gov/ https://www.forfeiture.gov/pdf/ATF/OfficialNotification.pdf https://www.forfeiture.gov/pdf/DEA/OfficialNotification.pdf https://www.forfeiture.gov/pdf/FBI/OfficialNotification.pdf https://www.forfeiture.gov/pdf/USAO/OfficialNotification.pdf https://www.forfeiture.gov/pdf/CBP/OfficialNotification.pdf https://www.forfeiture.gov/pdf/USPS/OfficialNotification.pdf https://www.forfeiture.gov/pdf/USSS/OfficialNotification.pdf   Does it remind you of the WILD […]

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/purdue-pharma-state-of-oklahoma-reach-settlement-in-landmark-opioid-lawsuit/2019/03/26/69aa5cda-4f11-11e9-a3f7-78b7525a8d5f_story.html Purdue Pharma and the state of Oklahoma have agreed to settle a lawsuit over the drugmaker’s role in the deadly opioid crisis, a milestone in the legal effort to force pharmaceutical companies to pay some of the costs of the epidemic, people familiar with the matter said. The deal, which is scheduled to be […]

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