They are going to cut the opiate supply at the legal level one way or another

Posted on November 13, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve

Anyone else see this? Cardinal health no longer shipping opiods into the state of RI in protest over to new state opiod tax. Here is the list meds they will no longer be shipping: https://www.cardinalhealth.com/content/dam/corp/web/documents/spreadsheet/cardinal-health-ri-item-list.pdf All pharmacies have contracts with the PBM’s and within those contracts the pharmacies are pretty much “hog tied”… these contracts […]

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November Awareness Fundraiser for You’re Not Alone Foundation Debbie Bolen Wagner’s photo.

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Does a practitioner’s ethnicity effect the care they provide to females ?

Posted on November 13, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve

I have always heard stories about females tend to get poorer quality of care out of doctors whose ethnicity is from foreign countries. We have seemed to have experienced this personally… Barb was having some shortness of breath and I suspected either a pulmonary embolism (PE) or pneumonia.. so she called to get an appt […]

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DEA Is About to Demonstrate “How Little They Know About What They Imagine They Can Design”

Posted on November 13, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve

DEA Is About to Demonstrate “How Little They Know About What They Imagine They Can Design” https://www.cato.org/blog/dea-about-demonstrate-how-little-they-know-about-what-they-imagine-they-can-design Last month the Drug Enforcement Administration, tasked with setting quotas for opioid production in the U.S, announced a proposal to reduce production levels another 10 percent, having already reduced production by 25 percent in 2017 and an additional […]

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Addiction now defined as brain disorder…not behavior issue

Posted on November 13, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve

Addiction now defined as brain disorder…not behavior issue http://www.nbcnews.com/id/44147493/ns/health-addictions/t/addiction-now-defined-brain-disorder-not-behavior-issue/ Addiction is a chronic brain disorder and not simply a behavior problem involving alcohol, drugs, gambling or sex, experts contend in a new definition of addiction, one that is not solely related to problematic substance abuse. The American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) just released this […]

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