What do you get when a car and a motorcycle hit HEAD ON ?… a chronic pain pt ?

Posted on June 28, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve

Oscar Nominee George Clooney’s Fight with Chronic Pain www.nationalpainreport.com/oscar-nominee-george-clooneys-fight-with-chronic-pain-8812892.html It’s a scene that may help George Clooney win an Academy Award. It’s also ironic, given the actor’s struggles with chronic pain. “Goodbye my love, my pain,” Clooney’s character says in “The Descendents” as he prepares to tell doctors to turn off the life support machine […]

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ACLU-NH, state medical society look to block DEA access to prescription drug records

Posted on June 28, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve

ACLU-NH, state medical society look to block DEA access to prescription drug records https://www.unionleader.com/news/courts/aclu-nh-state-medical-society-look-to-block-dea-access/article_eab66edb-ffa8-5579-82bf-3c5a1c118b4b.html The American Civil Liberties Union of New Hampshire and the New Hampshire Medical Society filed a brief in federal court Wednesday, saying the state should continue to fight a request made by federal law enforcement for access to the state’s prescription […]

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This is how our legal system wins: Tsunami of spurious lawsuits filed to cause a organization to file bankruptcy

Posted on June 28, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve

American Pain Society Goes Belly Up Opioid lawsuit costs prompt membership to approve bankruptcy filing https://www.medpagetoday.com/primarycare/opioids/80777 Saying it is beleaguered by legal debt fighting lawsuits alleging that its policies contributed to the nation’s opioid crisis, the American Pain Society has voted to cease operations and on Friday, filed for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 7. Numerous […]

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PA: The bill would make it a crime for doctors to write a prescription of more than seven days for an opioid painkiller

Posted on June 28, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve

Pa. might devise punishments for docs who give more than a week of opioid painkillers https://www.pennlive.com/news/2019/06/pa-might-devise-tougher-penalties-for-docs-who-prescribe-long-term-opioid-painkillers.html The main sponsor of a bill that would ban doctors from prescribing more than seven days’ worth of opioids says it’s also time to consider stiffer penalties for doctors who overprescribe the highly addictive painkillers. “It’s an area of […]

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Should the healthcare insurance industry be treated like a MONOPOLY ?

Posted on June 28, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve

We have treated the utility industry since the Sherman Antitrust Act was signed into law in 1890.  Until the 1990’s most health insurance companies were mutual companies … the were NOT FOR PROFIT businesses and their policy holders basically owned the company.  but starting in the 1990’s the healthcare insurance industries began “demutalizing” … they […]

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The NATIONAL DEBATE WITHOUT the “opiate crisis” mentioned once ?

Posted on June 28, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve

What a dramatic difference between those on the stage the first night and the second night… the first night it was like a group of Type B personalities participating in a very “polite debate” The Second night was like a group of type A personalities in a “cat fight”. They keep talking about “Medicare for […]

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