PBM’s industry starting to have contracts fall/cancelled like Dominos ?

Posted on April 10, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve

CVS Caremark dumped by big Medicaid insurer https://www.record-courier.com/news/20190410/cvs-caremark-dumped-by-big-medicaid-insurer CareSource, by far Ohio’s largest Medicaid managed-care provider, on Tuesday announced that it was firing CVS Caremark as its pharmacy benefit manager. The more than 1 million Medicaid clients served by Dayton-based CareSource now will have their prescriptions handled by Express Scripts, another of the nation’s three […]

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Gutfeld on the fabricated opiate crisis

Posted on April 10, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve

Watch the latest video at foxnews.com

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Do You Know About a Suicide from Chronic Pain?

Posted on April 10, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve

Do You Know About a Suicide from Chronic Pain? www.nationalpainreport.com/do-you-know-about-a-suicide-from-chronic-pain-8839485.html It’s an issue we’ve talked about a lot on the National Pain Report—patient abandonment and suicide from chronic pain. We see it in statistics, we report it in stories, and we see alarming threats of it—many threats—in our commentary section. (Some so alarming, that we’ve […]

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will WALGREEN’S PHARMACISTS become MORE UNCOMFORTABLE about filling opiate Rxs ?

Posted on April 10, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve

State seeks to add Walgreens to opioid epidemic lawsuit https://delawarebusinessnow.com/2019/04/state-seeks-to-add-walgreens-to-opioid-epidemic-lawsuit/ In a recent court filing in Delaware’s ongoing civil lawsuit against the pharmaceutical industry over the prescription opioid crisis, the state again alleges that Walgreens had a role in the addiction epidemic as both a pharmacy and a distributor. Walgreens became the state’s largest drug […]

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Pain Management: A Fundamental Human Right

Posted on April 10, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve

Pain Management: A Fundamental Human Right https://journals.lww.com/anesthesia-analgesia/pages/articleviewer.aspx This article surveys worldwide medical, ethical, and legal trends and initiatives related to the concept of pain management as a human right. This concept recently gained momentum with the 2004 European Federation of International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) Chapters-, International Association for the Study of […]

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