Scott Fitzgerald is news director at chanel 2 KJRH. He said email him & he will put a news crew on The Pain Patient Crisis. scott.fitzgerald@kjrh.com. Get the word out. Show him we are for real.
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‘Business decision’: Former DEA official works for opioid lawyers but set standards for how many pills were made
Posted on September 3, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve
‘Business decision’: Former DEA official works for opioid lawyers but set standards for how many pills were made https://legalnewsline.com/stories/513448671-business-decision-former-dea-official-works-for-opioid-lawyers-but-set-standards-for-how-many-pills-were-made Rannazzisi Asked what would’ve happened if a pharmaceutical distributor wanted advice on whether a large order of opioids was suspicious, the man in charge of federal regulation of those pills for 10 years said he wouldn’t […]
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Posted on September 3, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve
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American researchers have known for decades that the DEA intentionally stifles cannabis research by giving scientists only low-grade marijuana
Posted on September 3, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve
The DEA’s Sole Pot Farmer Explains Why He Only Grows Shitty Weed https://www.merryjane.com/news/the-deas-sole-pot-farmer-explains-why-he-only-grows-shitty-weed He said 8% THC was “extremely potent,” and that only drug addicts needed stronger weed. The guy who was tasked with hiring the US government’s professional joint rollers finally explained why his DEA-approved farm only provides crappy weed to American researchers: Drug […]
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Never Let an Opioid Crisis Go to Waste
Posted on September 2, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve
Never Let an Opioid Crisis Go to Waste https://www.spectator.org/never-let-an-opioid-crisis-go-to-waste/ When the Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis advised the President to declare a national emergency to deal with the overdose epidemic, HHS Secretary Tom Price wisely suggested that this step wouldn’t be particularly useful: “[T]he opioid crisis at this point can be […]
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new data suggests that opioid deaths in America are now largely due to an illegal synthetic form of the drug smuggled into the U.S.
Posted on September 2, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve
There was a time when the opioid crisis was blamed mostly on prescription painkiller abuse. But new data suggests that opioid deaths in America are now largely due to an illegal synthetic form of the drug smuggled into the U.S. One America’s John Hines has more from Washington. Visit us at: Website: https://www.oann.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OneAmericaNe… […]
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There are an increasing number of retractions of studies and published papers. Can we even trust what remains??
Posted on September 2, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve
There are an increasing number of retractions of studies and published papers. Can we even trust what remains?? https://www.retractionwatch.com/2019/08/26/former-nci-postdoc-faked-data-from-nearly-60-experiments/#more-110187 Former NCI postdoc faked data from nearly 60 experiments by Ivan Oransky A former postdoc at the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI) made up data for 59 experiments that never happened, according to new findings by […]
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CDC guideline is silent regarding what would qualify a practitioner to call themselves a “pain specialist.”
Posted on September 1, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve
Can I Call Myself a “Pain Specialist?” https://www.practicalpainmanagement.com/resources/ethics/can-call-myself-pain-specialist Who defines the role of pain specialists? Do you qualify as one, and do the courts agree? Inside the legal requirements. In April 2019, in the case of US v. Littleford, a Colorado physician was sentenced to 87 months in prison for overprescribing opioids that ultimately resulted […]
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Health insurers – profits and premiums growing dramatically…while pts are denied appropriate care more and more ?
Posted on September 1, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve
Insurers Win and Patients Lose… Again While insurers grow more powerful, patients and doctors are losing control of medicine, says Kevin Campbell, MD https://www.medpagetoday.com/blogs/campbells-scoop/81823 The country’s biggest health insurers earned more than $11 billion in profit in Q2 this year, and Kevin Campbell, MD, has had enough of the industry continuing to grow without a […]
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