Fentanyl overdoses become No. 1 cause of death among US adults, ages 18-45: ‘A national emergency’

Posted on December 16, 2021 by Pharmaciststeve

for year 2020, there is a reported 75,000 OD’d that involved ILLEGAL FENTANYL ANALOG – remember – according to Wikipedia – there is some 400 different Fentanyl analogs… with only one analog being a FDA approved for use in humans.  Remember the Vietnam war – a total of 20 yrs and a total of 58,220 […]

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CDC advisory panel recommends Pfizer and Modern vaccines over Johnson & Johnson

Posted on December 16, 2021 by Pharmaciststeve

Just announced that 800,000 have died from COVID-19 in the USA https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/least-800000-americans-died-covid-rcna8380 … and what we have had is the largest clinical trial without any controls…  all those hundred of million COVID-19 vaccinations were provided under EUA (Emergency Use Authorization).  Until the COVID-19 vaccines, all clinical trials have a CONTROL GROUP and generally takes 10+ […]

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The BAD OUTCOME that denial of care can cause

Posted on December 16, 2021 by Pharmaciststeve

For some reason some of the war of words on certain sections of the web jarred up some old memories.., This is a article that I clipped out of a pharmacy professional journal – years ago… I could not even find this on my computer, I had to go back to paper files to find […]

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Knowledge is knowing the rules and clinical experience is knowing the exceptions to the rules

Posted on December 16, 2021 by Pharmaciststeve

When a self-centered doctor is diagnosed with cancer, he becomes better able to empathize with his patients and appreciate a life outside his career. A “war of words” somewhere else on the web jarred my memory about this movie from abt 20 yrs ago. There is a old saying and favorite one of mine…. Knowledge […]

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Another pharma putting out opiates with questionable efficacy ?

Posted on December 16, 2021 by Pharmaciststeve

Steve, last year I noticed no pain relief after taking my hydrocodone 7.5  that I had been on since 2007. So I called my Pharmacist and she said tolerance build up. So I told my doctor and he increased to 10 mg. Still no relief. So, I started rummaging around in my drawers and found […]

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Another prescriber INDUCED SUICIDE

Posted on December 16, 2021 by Pharmaciststeve

My dad was a chronically I’ll patient. He was 75 and underwent multiple back surgery’s and nerve decompression along w recently broken hip and spine. He fought like hell to live but his family doctor told him due to the FDA guidelines his pain meds had to be controlled by a pain doctor. After months […]

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Update 12/15/2021:Denial of pain: University of Louisville Hospital- stage FOUR metastatic cancer

Posted on December 16, 2021 by Pharmaciststeve

  I spoke with this pt this AM and before going into the hospital one week ago – using those UNPREDICTABLE MME CONVERSION PRGMS this pt was on near 500 MME/day. before entering the hospital and was discharged with 40 MME/day.  Before entering the hospital the pt indicated that she was around a “5” on […]

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