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Medical Board of California Interested Parties Meeting Prescribing Guidelines November 15, 2022
Posted on November 17, 2022 by Pharmaciststeve
I have not had time to listen to this TWO HOUR webinar… just sharing it right now
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Oklahoma proposes landmark rule to keep mailed medications safe from extreme temperatures
Posted on November 17, 2022 by Pharmaciststeve
Most all medications have a temperature storage requirement – typically 59-86 F – and pharmas, wholesalers, pharmacies are required to keep medications within that range and if they are outside of that temp range > 24 hrs… the potency of the medications are generally considered “compromised”… BUT… when a mail order pharmacy hands off a […]
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a new “band-aid” for dealing with KNEE PAIN ?
Posted on November 17, 2022 by Pharmaciststeve
Want a Few Weeks of Knee Pain Relief? Try This https://www.medpagetoday.com/meetingcoverage/acr/101699 Local nerve block proves mettle in randomized trial, though benefit didn’t last long PHILADELPHIA — Blocking agents delivered to genicular nerves around the knee markedly reduced osteoarthritis patients’ perceptions of pain, far more than those receiving placebo injections, a randomized trial showed. At week […]
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Could the way healthcare is provided be changing FOR THE BETTER ?
Posted on November 17, 2022 by Pharmaciststeve
Here’s what people were talking about at HLTH this year (it’s probably not what you think) https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/heres-what-people-were-talking-hlth-year-its-probably-beth-kutscher/ I spent this past week at HLTH (https://www.hlth.com/), the healthcare innovation conference that brings together several thousand people from across healthcare’s different sectors: from hospitals to insurers to pharma to healthtech, and using healthcare is essential as well, […]
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Marijuana Smoking Increases Emphysema Risk, Study Suggests
Posted on November 15, 2022 by Pharmaciststeve
I am not opposed to the use of legal medical marijuana. I have always had a concern of the SMOKING of MJ and/or smoking anything for that matter. There are other ways to utilize medical MJ, eatables, compounded Troches that are put under the tongue and/or between the cheek & gum. There is also the […]
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DEA Sets CDC Opioid Guidelines
Posted on November 15, 2022 by Pharmaciststeve
DEA Sets CDC Opioid Guidelines https://www.daily-remedy.com/dea-sets-cdc-opioid-guidelines/ The CDC unveiled its latest opioid prescribing guidelines. Let’s talk about the CDC and the DEA. Let’s talk about the newly minted 2022 CDC opioid prescribing guidelines and implementing those guidelines in the court of law. Let’s start from the beginning. During the early 2010s, what most people characterize […]
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I wonder how many members of Congress is aware of this – and have turned a blind eye and deft ear to how corrupt the DEA is ?
Posted on November 15, 2022 by Pharmaciststeve
UPDATE: This is going to be on Jesse Watters show tonight (11/15/22) 7PM (EST) Fox Cable A prescriber gets 20 yrs in prison for a FABRICATED charge of providing any controlled substances to someone that the DEA determines that is outside of “THEIR” idea of standard of care and best practices… “Drug mules”, caught with […]
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PBM industry: your appropriate healthcare and well being – may not be their number one goal
Posted on November 15, 2022 by Pharmaciststeve
Mail order pharmacies pic.twitter.com/yJDZYqMYzp — Dr. Glaucomflecken (@DGlaucomflecken) November 12, 2022
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Substance-use struggles are a daily occurrence for the 1 in 10 Americans battling addiction
Posted on November 14, 2022 by Pharmaciststeve
For >100 yrs, our country, we have had between 1%-2% of our population being serious addicts to opiate and similar substances. Currently it is being reported that some 70K-75K /yr die from a OD/poisoning of illegal Fentanyl. Now it is stated that abt 9% of our population are seriously addicted to the abuse of the […]
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