PHARMACIST STEVE

       ended her life through intervention assisted euthanasia – suicide. This poor intractable chronic pain pt, from a work place injury, after having lost all her pain meds,  to be able to put a end to her physical pain.  Now, the family left behind is suffering. Our politicians and bureaucrats talk about […]

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Buprenorphine Initiation Rates Stall Despite Policy Efforts to Boost Uptake https://www.medpagetoday.com/psychiatry/addictions/104181 Furthermore, just one in five patients remained on therapy for at least 180 days Monthly initiation rates for buprenorphine increased and then flattened from 2016 to 2022, suggesting that recent efforts to increase use of the treatment for opioid use disorder have been insufficient, […]

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Is this another study with  selective data to come to a predetermined outcome?     Suicide and Opioids: No Easy Answers, No Sweeping Conclusions Almost everyone has a personal connection to the national overdose crisis that claimed over 107,000 lives last year. Many have also been touched by the rising toll of suicides in the […]

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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 […]

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  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 […]

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This is so sad, this is about 10 miles from our home.  The pharmacy was in “downtown” Corydon.  Right off the typical town square. Corydon was also the FIRST CAPITAL of Indiana.  When I was first licensed there was a second pharmacy on the town square (Davis Pharmacy)… which closed years ago. With the closing […]

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FDA Panelists Slam Agency’s Proposed Opioid Trial Design https://www.medpagetoday.com/painmanagement/opioids/104117 Advisors said outcomes from an enriched enrollment study would not be broadly generalizable FDA advisors recommended that the agency reconsider its planned postmarketing trial design to evaluate the long-term efficacy and tolerability of opioids in chronic pain patients. Without holding a vote on Wednesday, the Anesthetic and […]

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