Dr Lembke TED TALK “a doctor’s thoughts on the opioid epidemic” – facts or personal biases ?

Posted on July 12, 2021 by Pharmaciststeve

In this presentation, Dr Lembke made the statement that “doctors are limited in what they can fix… “once it is broken ” after she stated earlier in the video stated that the “body can heal itself ” So the question has to be asked and answered… if the body can’t heal itself and the doctor’s […]

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Guess who is coming to your door

Posted on July 11, 2021 by Pharmaciststeve

  The bureaucrats have decided that they are going to come KNOCKING at your door to make sure that you – and your entire family – has gotten vaccinated.  Think about it… our country has ordered – and paid for – hundreds of millions of vials of vaccines from at least 4 different companies.  All […]

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Liver injury from acetaminophen at low doses linked to fasting, heavy drinking

Posted on July 10, 2021 by Pharmaciststeve

Liver injury from acetaminophen at low doses linked to fasting, heavy drinking https://www.pharmacist.com/Pharmacy-News/liver-injury-from-acetaminophen-at-low-doses-linked-to-fasting-heavy-drinking Acetaminophen is commonly used to treat minor aches and pains; however, patients have been cautioned about liver injury associated with overuse. Because of the extensive use of this medication, Louvet and colleagues at Hôpital Huriez and the Université de Lille (France) performed […]

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Bureaucracies: insisting on following the science until the science doesn’t conform to their agenda ?

Posted on July 10, 2021 by Pharmaciststeve

the four articles included in this post is from a legal brief… of a prescriber as a defendant in defending being pursued by a state medical licensing board to revoke the prescriber’s state medical license over some FABRICATED BELIEFS on the prescribing of opiates to treat legit chronic pain pts. I was thinking today as […]

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RIP: In her haunting words, she couldn’t do it anymore. “This is not survivable”

Posted on July 10, 2021 by Pharmaciststeve

The beloved advocate, lawyer, & activist Erin Gilmer has passed on. She was suffering in #IntractablePain. Her doctors ignored her to death. How many must die to prove there is a TREMENDOUS problem in American Healthcare? She begged for help for years, and no one listened. No one. When there is no end in sight, […]

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HELP — HELP — HELP

Posted on July 9, 2021 by Pharmaciststeve

Every week, sometimes multiple of times a day… I get emails, FB messages, phone calls from chronic pain pts that are being denied care and their medically necessary medication… sometimes from a prescriber, some from a pharmacy/pharmacist, insurance/PBM. I am about to take on the task of being CFO for the non profit American Pain […]

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CMS: solicit applications for the Substance Use-Disorder Prevention

Posted on July 9, 2021 by Pharmaciststeve

Today, CMS released a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) to solicit applications for the Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment (SUPPORT) for Patients and Communities Act post-planning period, demonstration project. Open to only the 15 states receiving planning grants, this 36-month demonstration project seeks to increase the treatment capacity of providers, participating […]

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Missouri to probe pharmacists’ working conditions after hundreds of complaints

Posted on July 5, 2021 by Pharmaciststeve

The chronic pain community needs to make note of this …  The PRIMARY CHARGE of the various State Boards of Pharmacy (BOP)  is to protect the health/safety of the general public. Historically, when Pharmacists complain about working conditions .. the typical BOP’s response – if they bothered to responded at all – is that they […]

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Cabell County, Huntington rests at opioid trial, judge weighing defenses’ dismissal request

Posted on July 3, 2021 by Pharmaciststeve

Cabell County, Huntington rests at opioid trial, judge weighing defenses’ dismissal request https://www.herald-dispatch.com/news/cabell-county-huntington-rests-at-opioid-trial-judge-weighing-defenses-dismissal-request/article_6867eb23-2e64-56c8-81cb-c15222941589.html HUNTINGTON — After resting its months-long case in which the city of Huntington and Cabell County accused drug distributors of helping to cause the opioid crisis in the area, the municipalities faced their biggest obstacle Thursday — satisfying an inquisitive judge. The […]

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Clarence Thomas says federal laws against marijuana may no longer be necessary

Posted on July 2, 2021 by Pharmaciststeve

Clarence Thomas says federal laws against marijuana may no longer be necessary https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/clarence-thomas-says-federal-laws-against-marijuana-may-no-longer-n1272524 “The federal government’s current approach is a half-in, half-out regime that simultaneously tolerates and forbids local use of marijuana,” the conservative Supreme Court justice wrote. Clarence Thomas, one of the Supreme Court‘s most conservative justices, said Monday that because of the hodgepodge […]

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