Posted on April 11, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve
Veteran who killed himself outside of VA center in Decatur identified https://www.ajc.com/news/breaking-news/veteran-who-killed-himself-outside-center-decatur-identified/NMqi3pO2DjCWu7KqOiXtbN/ Victim was 68-year-old Alpharetta man who shot himself The veteran who killed himself outside the main entrance to the Atlanta VA Medical Center in Decatur Saturday has been identified as Olen Hancock, 68, of Alpharetta, according to the DeKalb County Medical Examiner’s Office. […]
Like this:
Like Loading...
Filed under: General Problems | 6 Comments »
Posted on April 11, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve
FDA New Guidance on Opioids Drawing Response www.nationalpainreport.com/fda-new-guidance-on-opioids-drawing-response-8839531.html The FDA’s safety announcement this week that says it has identified harm reported from sudden discontinuation of opioid pain medicines and is requiring label changes to guide prescribers on gradual, individualized tapering was generally praised. Stanford Psychologist Beth Darnall—who was in Australia speaking to the 2019 Australian […]
Like this:
Like Loading...
Filed under: General Problems | 1 Comment »
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 […]
Like this:
Like Loading...
Filed under: General Problems | 1 Comment »
Posted on April 10, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve
Watch the latest video at foxnews.com
Like this:
Like Loading...
Filed under: General Problems | 1 Comment »
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 […]
Like this:
Like Loading...
Filed under: General Problems | Leave a Comment »
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 […]
Like this:
Like Loading...
Filed under: General Problems | Leave a Comment »
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 […]
Like this:
Like Loading...
Filed under: General Problems | 5 Comments »
Posted on April 9, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve
Federal Audit: Secret Surveillance Program Helped DEA Seize Over $50 Million In Cash And Real Estate https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicksibilla/2019/04/09/federal-audit-secret-surveillance-program-helped-dea-seize-over-50-million-in-cash-and-real-estate/#333d583337de Under a sweeping surveillance program, the Drug Enforcement Administration secretly spied on Americans who bought money counters, “the vast majority” of whom “were never shown to be connected to illicit drug-related activities.” In an extensive audit, the U.S. […]
Like this:
Like Loading...
Filed under: General Problems | Leave a Comment »
Posted on April 9, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve
Why Does Medicine Cost So Much? Here’s How Drug Prices Are Set http://time.com/5564547/drug-prices-medicine/ From 2007 to 2016, Mylan raised the list price of its EpiPen about 500%, from just under $100 to more than $600. From 2002 to 2013, insulin prices more than tripled. From 2012 to 2019, the average price of AbbVie’s rheumatoid-arthritis drug […]
Like this:
Like Loading...
Filed under: General Problems | Leave a Comment »
Posted on April 9, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve
Insurers’ Denials of Opioid Coverage Spurs CDC to Clarify Guidelines https://consumer.healthday.com/bone-and-joint-information-4/opioids-990/insurers-denials-of-opioid-coverage-spurs-cdc-to-clarify-guidelines-744875.html TUESDAY, April 9, 2019 (HealthDay News) — People with severe pain from cancer or sickle cell anemia should not be denied coverage for opioid painkillers, a new clarification on federal guidelines states. In the wake of the national opioid epidemic, various medical societies had […]
Like this:
Like Loading...
Filed under: General Problems | 2 Comments »
