America’s problem with managing chronic pain and the addiction crisis

America’s problem with managing chronic pain and the addiction crisis https://www.axios.com/2023/04/21/americas-problem-chronic-pain-addiction-crisis The Food and Drug Administration’s attempts to manage the overdose crisis by reining in on the use of narcotics are weighing on patients with chronic pain, who say the result has been harder-to-fill prescriptions and heightened withdrawal and suicide risks. The big picture: The FDA […]

Long after heyday, soda fountain pharmacies still got fizz

  Long after heyday, soda fountain pharmacies still got fizz https://apnews.com/article/soda-fountain-pharmacies-phosphate-drinks-85da13b45d7d0c94fb82d9d302b2584f KENOVA, W.Va. (AP) — The jukebox plays Chubby Checker’s “The Twist” as Malli Jarrett and Nathaniel Fornash take turns at the Griffith & Feil Drug food counter preparing old-fashioned, soda-fountain phosphate drinks. Soda fountains like this were hugely popular a century ago. Often located […]