Washington Post Revelation of Pain Pill Distribution Only Helps to Fuel the False Narrative

Posted on July 19, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve

Washington Post Revelation of Pain Pill Distribution Only Helps to Fuel the False Narrative https://www.cato.org/blog/washington-post-revelation-pain-pill-distribution-only-helps-fuel-false-narrative The Washington Post recently received access to a database maintained by the Drug Enforcement Administration that tracks the manufacture and distribution of every prescription opioid in the country. It reported that 76 billion pills were distributed throughout the US between 2006 and […]

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Medical culture encourages doctors to avoid admitting mistakes

Posted on July 19, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve

Medical culture encourages doctors to avoid admitting mistakes www.statnews.com/2017/01/13/medical-errors-doctors/ If you become the victim of a medical error, should you trust your doctor to be forthright about his or her role in the mistake? That could be a bad idea. An alarming new study says that most doctors would try to obscure their role in […]

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Congressional candidate.. chronic pain advocate ?

Posted on July 18, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve

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As More States Legalize, DEA Chops Down Fewer Marijuana Plants, Federal Data Shows

Posted on July 17, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve

As More States Legalize, DEA Chops Down Fewer Marijuana Plants, Federal Data Shows www.marijuanamoment.net/as-more-states-legalize-dea-chops-down-fewer-marijuana-plants-federal-data-shows/ The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) seized far fewer marijuana plants in 2018 compared to the previous year but made significantly more cannabis-related arrests, according to federal data released this month. More than 2.8 million indoor and outdoor marijuana plants were seized […]

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TN pain clinic: forcing patients to receive unnecessary injections into their back, then intentionally mislabeling the injections during billing

Posted on July 17, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve

Four Tennessee pain clinics closing after arrests, fraud allegations https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/health/2019/05/09/tennessee-pain-clinics-closing-painmd-rinova-fraud-allegations/1153043001/ Four Tennessee pain clinics have abruptly closed in the wake of federal authorities accusing executives and employees of inflating profits by giving patients thousands of worthless injections. The clinics were formerly part of PainMD but were re-branded under the name Rinova after PainMD was accused of widespread […]

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Chronic pain pt asking LA of Senator Rubio to co-sponsor a bill reverse CDC guidelines

Posted on July 17, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve

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A Visitor from the Past

Posted on July 17, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve

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Class Action Lawsuit Slams UnitedHealthcare for Denying Drug Addiction Treatment While Millions of Americans Die from the Disease

Posted on July 17, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve

Class Action Lawsuit Slams UnitedHealthcare for Denying Drug Addiction Treatment While Millions of Americans Die from the Disease www.litigation-update.com/callahan-blaine-files-class-action-lawsuit-unitedhealthcare-opioid-addiction-treatment-denials/ SANTA ANA, CA–On average, 130 Americans die every day from an opioid overdose. In 2017 alone, California lost 2,196 lives to the opioid epidemic. Drug overdoses now cause more deaths than either car accidents or guns. […]

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Surgeon General Backpedals on Flawed Tylenol Study. Because of ACSH

Posted on July 17, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve

Surgeon General Backpedals on Flawed Tylenol Study. Because of ACSH. https://www.acsh.org/news/2019/07/15/surgeon-general-backpedals-flawed-tylenol-study-because-acsh-14153 Fireworks can be an awful lot of fun on July 4th, but not so much if they blow up in your face. Unfortunately for Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams, his face was in the wrong place on Independence Day because of a ridiculous paper in […]

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(Illegal) fentanyl is now the leading cause of fatal drug overdoses claiming 49,000 lives in 2017

Posted on July 16, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve

Chinese fentynal dealer busted by the DEA https://foxsanantonio.com/news/local/chinese-fentynal-dealer-busted-by-the-dea SAN ANTONIO — Chinese fentynal dealer busted by the DEA as he shipped thousands of dollars worth of fentynal into South Texas. The DEA tells Fox San Antonio how the Chinese government help to bust the dealer in this week’s On the Frontlines with the DEA. It’s […]

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