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Sweeping lawsuit accuses top generic drug companies, executives of fixing prices More than 40 states say the biggest drug makers engaged in “industry-wide conspiracy” to fix prices of generic drugs https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sweeping-lawsuit-accuses-top-generic-drug-companies-executives-of-fixing-prices-60-minutes-2019-05-12/   It might be the biggest price-fixing scheme in U.S. history. On Friday, Connecticut and a coalition of more than 40 states filed a […]

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Americans with diabetes are forming caravans to buy Canadian insulin at 90% off www.boingboing.net/2019/05/09/life-or-death.html The price-gouger-driven skyrocketing prices for insulin have endangered the lives of Americans with diabetes, who are rationing their supplies and trying not to die. All of this is part of the story of how the for-profit US health care system is […]

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Hope in the drug crisis: New data shows prescription opioid use fell at a historic rate last year https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/08/prescription-opioid-use-fell-at-a-record-rate-in-2018-new-report.html Use of prescription opioids such as OxyContin or Vicodin fell at a record rate last year as the U.S. government cracks down on pharmacists and drugmakers that dispense the sometimes lethal painkillers, according to a report […]

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Terri Lewis PhD Is looking for patients harmed by being turned away by their pharmacist Or Harmed by a prescription drug monitoring program. anyone who wants to share their story of being harmed by a PDMP or risk scoring program can send me an email which I will forward to the investigator at Politico. Tal7291@yahoo.com

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Neurontin: The Darling of the Anti-Opioid Crowd. But Does It Work? https://www.acsh.org/news/2019/05/07/neurontin-darling-anti-opioid-crowd-does-it-work-14005 The mad rush to purge this country of demonic prescription analgesic drugs (mainly Vicodin and Percocet) has pain patients and their doctors in an unprecedented dilemma. The tapering or complete discontinuation of painkilling drugs that pain patients have been using successfully for years, even decades, and […]

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Heroin Pills Are Now A Reality – Is Andrew Kolodny Finally Happy? https://www.acsh.org/news/2019/02/20/heroin-pills-are-now-reality-andrew-kolodny-finally-happy-13825 Sometimes a few words are worth 1,000 words.   “…[H]ydrocodone and hydrocodone combination products produce the same effects that other opioid agonists produce… but we could [include] heroin there, as well, because what we’re really talking about are heroin pills.”  Andrew Kolodny, […]

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The DEA Wants More Marijuana and Less Opioids https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/21556/20190510/the-dea-wants-more-marijuana-and-less-opioids.htm It is well known that the Drug Enforcement Administration or DEA, is not a particularly avid backer of the cultivation and legalization of marijuana. However, in a new Federal Register filing set to soon be published, the anti-drug agency is gearing up to increase the total […]

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All illegal drugs in Mexico could be decriminalized in radical government plan https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/10/illegal-drugs-in-mexico-could-be-decriminalized-in-government-plan.html A five-year policy document by the Mexican government has included a plan to decriminalize illegal drugs. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said lifting prohibition was the only real way to curb drug use. It is estimated that Mexico’s drug gangs rake in […]

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