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Pain Refugees: Collateral Damage of the War on Drugs https://www.cato.org/events/pain-refugees-collateral-damage-war-drugs For much of the 21st century, public health officials and policymakers have blamed doctors for overprescribing opioids and causing the overdose crisis. In response, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued pain management guidelines aimed at reducing opioid prescriptions. Most states have codified them […]
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Medicare enrollment for 2025 now open Next year, Medicare folks are going to get a break when they pay $2,000 out of pocket for medications and get ZERO COPAY after than point. Have you ever squeezed a balloon? What happens, one part gets smaller and the other part gets LARGER? I went out to www.medicare,gov […]
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https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/524 An attorney IS NEEDED who would file a Constitutional Challenge to the 2016 Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA) which did the same thing the DEA is doing to data mine to prosecute doctors. They are using “Summary Statistics” and the Bell Curve, and gave Medicare and the private corporations administering Medicare […]
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I share this post from my blog on another website Should Clinicians Be Liable for Patient Suicide After Failing to Prescribe Pain Medications? Another person made the following comment on that blog post Pain Psychologist and Attorney They absolutely should, and the facts presented demonstrate a clear violation of the standard of care. Unfortunately, opiate […]
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Quote Origin: If You Are Not a Liberal at 25, You Have No Heart. If You Are Not a Conservative at 35 You Have No Brain There is also a old saying, with age, comes wisdom. – or is it common sense and many figure out that friendship is more important than some political beliefs? […]
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The Whirlwind World of GLP-1 Medications for Treatment of Obesity and Diabetes https://medicaljustice.com/blog/whirlwind-world-of-glp-1-medications-for-treatment-of-obesity-and-diabetes/ If you’ve been living under a rock for the past few years, take note that there are very effective medications used to treat obesity and type II diabetes. They include products with glucagon-like peptide (GLP-1) activity. The two dominant players in the […]
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“A fundamental freedom to make decision about your own body” Why does a woman have a “A fundamental freedom to make decision about their own body” when it comes to the health issue of pregnancy, but when it comes to the treatment of both acute and chronic pain, she seems to have less – or […]
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Being a native Hoosier, I have always considered Indiana to be a fiscally conservative state. Apparently the PBM’s “dog and pony show” pull the fiscal wool over those who work for the state to sign up with a PBM who is known to have rather opaque financial disclosures. One of the PBMs that Indiana signed […]
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Should Clinicians Be Liable for Patient Suicide After Failing to Prescribe Pain Medications? https://www.clinicaladvisor.com/features/failure-prescribe-pain-medications-suicide/ Mr M was a 48-year-old married man with 3 children. He had been seeing his primary care physician (PCP) regularly since 2005 for chronic, debilitating cervical pain. The patient had been diagnosed with multi-level degenerative disc disease and cervical radiculopathy stemming […]
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