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Planning to Stop That Benzodiazepine? Think Twice Patients who discontinued long-term benzodiazepines had a higher risk of death https://www.medpagetoday.com/psychiatry/generalpsychiatry/107959 Stopping long-term benzodiazepine treatment was tied to a higher risk of death, according to a comparative effectiveness study using claims data. An intention-to-treat analysis showed that among people who weren’t simultaneously taking an opioid, the adjusted […]

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How Connecticut is going to resolve the opioid crisis – with an ORANGE STICKER   https://eregulations.ct.gov/eRegsPortal/Search/getDocument?guid=%7bA040AB8B-0000-C719-9001-39963994F028%7d As of January 1, 2024, Connecticut state law requires that all controlled substance and opioid prescriptions have a fluorescent warning label attached. Click here to see the regulations, policies and procedures.

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HOW STATE ATTORNEY GENERALS FRABRICATED DATA ANALYTICS, USED DECEPTIVE METHODOLOGIES, TO WRONGFULLY TARGET OXYCONTIN/ PURDUE PHARMA, CVS, WAL-MART, RITE AIDE, et. al., BILKING $BILLIONS IN SETTLEMENT SCAMS (Part-1)

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This is the definition of a Black Swan Event from ChatGPT A black swan event refers to an unpredictable and rare occurrence that has a major impact. The term was popularized by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his 2007 book, “The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable.” The metaphorical black swan was used to […]

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What are nitazenes? What to know about the drug that can be 10 times as potent as fentanyl https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nitazenes-fentanyl-substance-use-drug-supply-opioid-death-colorado/ A Colorado overdose death has been linked to a new formulation of nitazenes, a class of powerful opioid analgesics being increasingly seen in the illicit drug market.  Nitazenes have been around for decades, experts told CBS […]

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Those of us in the pharmacy community are aware of the discounts/rebates/kickbacks that the PBM demands from the Pharmas to have one or more of their meds on the PBM’s formulary, meaning that when a prescriber writes an Rx for the particular med, no prior authorization is required, but the PBM expects a discount/rebate/kickback from […]

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Looks like George Orwell, may have been just 40 yrs off in the novel he wrote – 1984. Some 20%-30% of our population has Medicare or Medicaid as their health insurance. They also have some control over your income. SS checks were increased by 3.2% for 2024, BUT President Biden just gave all federal employees […]

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I have been around community pharmacies for a number of years, the first time I worked in a community pharmacy was in the fall of 1966 – as a pharmacy student – while I was attending Butler U in Indianapolis. This was before there was a PBM industry and there was no DEA! Back in […]

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   DREIER’S BATTLE OF THE BULGE: AUSA DOUGLASS C. DREIER, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA vs. die UNTERMENSCHEN, DR. LESLY POMPY, MD

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