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Family says 21-year-old son died rationing insulin https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/breaking-the-news/family-says-21-year-old-son-died-rationing-insulin/89-d451a01b-9170-4341-9010-155cb87edccc The price of insulin is costing some people who can’t afford it their lives. RAMSEY, Minn. — Advocates say it is a sign of the growing problem of rising prescription costs in America. Friday, friends and family said 21-year-old Jesimya David Scherer-Radcliff died as a result of […]

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How Did We Come to Abandon America’s Pain Patients? https://filtermag.org/2019/07/15/abandon-americas-pain-patients/amp/ Overdoses—not those involving prescription opioids, but of heroin and illicit fentanyl, often combined with benzodiazepines—continue to go up. But opioid prescribing continues to go down. Pain patients are untreated and suffering. Pharmaceutical companies are being sued and settling. Law enforcement is cracking down on providers. […]

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DEATH on the Battlefield is Preferable

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Trump WH Seeks To Monitor The Disabled To Ensure They Aren’t “Too” Happy https://mavenroundtable.io/theintellectualist/news/trump-wh-seeks-to-monitor-the-disabled-to-ensure-they-aren-t-too-happy-1GE1YTfza0KHKw1oGIOrYA/ A new policy proposal by the Trump administration calls for the surveillance of disabled people’s social media profiles to determine the necessity of their disability benefits. The proposal, which reportedly aims to cut down on the number of fraudulent disability claims […]

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CDC’s new opioid guidelines will be used by plaintiffs bar, WLF says https://legalnewsline.com/stories/510704148-cdc-s-new-opioid-guidelines-will-be-used-by-plaintiffs-bar-wlf-says#.XSopWi6hyUg.facebook WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) – A Washington, D.C.-based public-interest law firm that has been outspoken about the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s handling of an opioid guideline development team argues the agency’s new guidelines, which were issued this month, will “no doubt” […]

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https://www.cato.org/blog/senators-manchin-braun-are-attempting-practice-medicine-without-license-fighting-wrong-war Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Mike Braun (R-IN) are still trying to address the fentanyl and heroin overdose crisis—soon to be joined by a methamphetamine and cocaine overdose crisis—by denying chronic pain patients access to pain relief. They have just introduced a bill they call The FDA Opioid Labeling Accuracy Act, which would “prohibit the Food […]

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Opioid Labeling Bill Drawing Fire from Chronic Pain Advocates www.nationalpainreport.com/opioid-labeling-bill-drawing-fire-from-chronic-pain-advocates-8840456.html Posted on July 13, 2019 by Ed Coghlan A bill introduced by West Virginia Democratic Senator and Indiana Republican Senator is drawing fire from chronic pain patient advocates. The bill they call The FDA Opioid Labeling Accuracy Act would “prohibit the Food and Drug Administration […]

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https://twitter.com/surgeon_general/status/1150004901403123712 1/? GM twitter! Let’s reset the discussion on pain management and opioid misuse. First, we must acknowledge/ I’ve always felt and said that we have a crisis of un and undertreated pain in the US, and it can lead to suicide, self medication w illicits, and other bad outcomes. 7:31 AM · Jul 13, […]

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Column: Condemn the opioid epidemic, sure. But remember those of us in chronic pain who need help. https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/ct-living-in-chronic-pain-opioid-use-essay-20190713-qkh4jjsdm5gtxgc6452tseljce-story.html Chicago Tribune reporter Katherine Rosenberg-Douglas is injected with anesthesia ahead of a spinal injection procedure on July 2, 2019, at PrairieShore Pain Center in Lincolnshire. Rosenberg-Douglas needs aggressive pain management after breaking her back while rollerblading years […]

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