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FTC sues, chides CVS and Cigna as part of PBM probe https://ncpa.org/newsroom/qam/2025/01/23/ftc-sues-chides-cvs-and-cigna-part-pbm-probe Word is circulating that Lina Khan—who served as the chair of the Federal Trade Commission under former President Joe Biden—will soon resign from the commission, but her tenure at the agency comes to a close with yet another swipe at PBMs. The FTC […]
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With this law, the actual who/what is guilty is what asset is confiscated. How does a house/boat/stack of money defend themself? With the majority of the currency forfeited is < $500, the cost of trying to retrieve the asset by proving it is not ill gotten gain, what is the cost of hiring an attorney […]
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At the top of this article published in 2024 Physicians Postgraduate Press, Inc and www.psychiatrist.com had this posted at the top of the article Posting of this PDF is not permitted. | For reprints or permissions, contact permissions@psychiatrist.com. | © 2024 Physicians Postgraduate Press, Inc. So I copied ONE PARAGRAPH from the article that seems […]
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I have very mixed emotions over this whole concept. I am a firm believer that any/all addictions have a significant underlying mental health issues. Recently U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy declared that alcohol causes CANCER. Some self-declared opioid experts wants to declare that anyone being prescribed any controlled substance should be diagnosed with a […]
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I am no attorney but I have always worked under the impression that law enforcement needs PROBABLE CAUSE to “go after” the alleged guilty party. In this article there is the words “alleges” and “likely” often used to justify the DOJ’s actions. Walgreens has some 8500 store, which would suggest that they employ over 20,000 […]
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While I have not always agreed with our President Donald Trump. After college, I worked only 6-7 yrs as an employee. I often “bucked the system” as an employee. Six years after college I decided to open my own community pharmacy, and before I retired years later, I had started a handful of businesses, not […]
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We know that people who are having their pain management reduced or eliminated entirely, their QOL deteriorates dramatically, often the person becomes disabled, losing their job(s) or the business that they have owed and operated for years. Often the “healthy spouse” abandons/divorces the chronic pain spouse. Even if the “healthy spouse” stays, the family’s financial […]
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By FDA law, compounding pharmacies are not allowed to compound and medications that is available as a commercially sold product. One exception is when a commercially produced product is in short supply or on back order. With these new GLP-1 medications, the very exact GLP-1 raw medication powder is NOT AVAILABLE to compounding pharmacies. Apparently […]
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Dr. Kolodny’s New Math: Turning Chronic Pain Patients into OUD Statistics https://www.acsh.org/news/2024/12/16/dr-kolodnys-new-math-turning-chronic-pain-patients-oud-statistics-49179 Just when you thought the opioid crisis may have peaked, Dr. Andrew Kolodny, arguably the world’s foremost anti-opioid zealot, has found a shiny new way to inflate the numbers. In the HHS’s redefining of opioid use disorder (OUD) to include patients responsibly taking […]
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I asked www.perplexity.ai about what medications could be used for a pt with under/untreated intractable chronic pain. The AI’s response was all over the place – it was as if – this AI was an employee of CDC or PROP -but never mentioned the use of a opioid, but it did mention the use of […]
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