Dr Mark Ibsen at the Don’t Punish Pain Rally in MT
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Don’t Punish Pain Rally 10-16-2019 from Susie Scott on Vimeo.
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Please pass along advise I was given by a lawyer to contact law schools as it could mean free media attention for the schools!!! Offer them the chance to be in history books. A lawyer suggested I contact my state`s law school, (bedridden twice 5 months after healing from a triple bypass, it took a year for me to find a doctor “after mine retired” that would prescribe both pain med. and zanax thatI have been on for 16 years) I called them but was told I was too far in distance from the school for them to consider my request.
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Name: PINSKY, DAVID DREW
License Type: Physician and Surgeon G
Primary Status: License Renewed & Current
School Name: University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine
Graduation Year: 1984
Address of Record:
2050 HUNTINGTON DR STE D
SOUTH PASADENA CA 91030
LOS ANGELES county
The following information is self-reported by the licensee and has not been verified by the Board.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla.—Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody joined seven states in pushing federal regulators to consider more information as they set manufacturing limits on prescription painkillers in hopes a more thorough review will lead to fewer overdose deaths as the fight against the opioid crisis continues. The coalition filed comments late Tuesday arguing Drug Enforcement Administration officials must do more to account for over-prescribing and expand its universe of information sources.
Attorney General Ashley Moody said, “Seventeen Floridians are dying every day from opioid abuse, as the national opioid crisis continues to ravage our country. To help reduce the excess supply of prescription opioids and save lives, I am calling on the DEA to reexamine the quotas that drug manufacturers have for specific painkiller production. This action could help reduce drug overdose deaths by limiting the amount of leftover pain medication that could fall into the hands of Floridians struggling with addiction.”
The coalition recognizes that current data sets make accounting for diversion difficult but argues such complexity cannot hinder progress. For instance, its members suggest that the DEA take into greater account data from its Drug Take Back Day as evidence of over-prescribing.
The states also suggest DEA officials should consider best practices developed by the medical community and state regulators, in addition to improving the usability of its reporting system and its suspicious orders database.
The DEA’s proposed limits for 2020 slash hydrocodone manufacturing by 19 percent and oxycodone by 8.8 percent in one year.
Florida’s attorney general joined six other states in the filing, including attorneys general in Arkansas, Idaho, Louisiana, Nebraska, West Virginia and the governor of Kentucky.
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My PMP called CVS pharmacist. Tonite’s “fill in” pharmacist absolutely REFUSES to fill my MS 60 at all!!!
Dr says the regular pharmacist will be there tom’w & he will fill it for cash. . Those night time hours tick by so slowly under circumstances like this.
Both my sons are very upset because they feel so helpless. They remind me that this will only get worse & worse every month. They think I am at a crossroad – put up & shut up OR. Sign myself in & get off MS & pray I will be able to function
She just got her rx
This is an exchange with a chronic pain pt’s advocate/friend. Once again this sort of scenario involves a “floater pharmacist” and one of the two major chain stores.
Pt can file complaints with the Pharmacist’s employer, the state board of Pharmacy, the PBM/insurance company and most likely the pt will get the response that “they” can’t force a Pharmacist to fill a Rx… which is true…
But we have a very serious and growing Pharmacist SURPLUS and if the Pharmacist’s employer was not happy with how their employee Pharmacist is treating pts who wish to patronize their pharmacy… They could fire them on the spot… but.. they don’t… so are they condoning this sort of denial of care ?
The Board of Pharmacy will tell the pt the same thing… Is this because the pt has not filed a complaint about being lied to, denial of care, pt abuse – intentionally throwing a pt into cold turkey withdrawal… IMO … all involving UNPROFESSIONAL CONDUCT… it is normal for bureaucrats not to really look for trouble.
The PBM/Insurance company MAKES MONEY when they don’t have to pay for a prescription that they should have paid for… because Pharmacists deny filling legit prescriptions most of these are FOR PROFIT COMPANIES.
UNPROFESSIONAL CONDUCT is a very broad/vague concept and maybe it is time for pt denied appropriate care start filing complaints with the state board of pharmacy for all the UNPROFESSIONAL CONDUCT that I heard from pts every week…
One or two complaints are not going to get the BOP to take action… they will dismiss the complaints are “disgruntled substance abuser”… because they don’t know/understand that a substance abuser would never call attention to themselves with anyone in law enforcement.
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https://www.fox13memphis.com/top-stories/man-is-dead-after-pharmacy-medication-mix-up/997776393
SOUTHAVEN, Miss. – One man is dead after a Southaven pharmacy allegedly mixed up the dosage of the man’s medication.
Jeffrey Dale Simmons, of Clarksdale, died after a CVS pharmacist filled his prescription with four times the dosage that the doctor had prescribed.
Simmons’ family is suing CVS and the pharmacist in federal court, according to the lawsuit.
We spoke to a northern Mississippi pharmacist who told us it is easy to be your own advocate and to make sure you get the right medicines and use them properly.
The pharmacist said when a doctor prescribes you medicines, you need to ask the doctor questions at that point.
“Ask what are you writing for me,” said Mike Klepzig, a pharmacist at Mike’s Pharmacy. “What is it for and what does it do and what is its strength that way you are more educated on what he is giving you, versus you just taking it for granted.”
Klepzig is an Olive Branch, Mississippi, pharmacist. He tells us to not just ask questions at the doctor’s office. When you go to the pharmacy, ask the pharmacist questions about your medication. The pharmacist should be open to a consultation about the medication, especially if it is new.
The important questions to remember include:
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MADISON, Wis (WMTV) — Protestors voiced concerns surrounding policies that restrict access to pain medication during the 5th annual nationwide “Don’t Punish Pain” rally.
Protesters took to the streets with colorful signs and their voices to tell their stories of pain.
“I’ve been in pain… constantly,” Joanne Cocchiola, protester said.
She has degenerative disc disease among other health complications, and she said pain is all she knows.
“I have arthritis in my knee. I have a plate in my foot, and they take the pain medicine away,” she said.
She said she used to paint pictures and ride horses, but now that piece of her life is gone.
“I can’t go for a walk with my husband anymore because of my knee and my feet and my hips. So what do I do all day? I have to lay down. It’s either on the couch or the bed,” Cocchiola said.
In 2016, the CDC issued prescribing guidelines highlighting risks of addiction encouraging providers to lower dosages when possible.
Pain experts said after the CDC released those guidelines, prescribers reduced or completely stopped the availability of opioids to chronically-ill patients.
“The problem with that is that in many of these patients, on an individual basis, they do obtain a substantial amount of benefit in addition to other medications, but they still get a benefit out of opioids and safely, ” Paul Hutson, UW-Madison Pharmacy Professor said.
Health experts said the regulations don’t consider that there’s no “one size fits all” with medical care.
“We’re having negative consequences from rapid stopping of individuals with opioids who have legitimate needs for these prescriptions. So it’s finding that balance,” Cody Wenthur, UW-Madison Assistant Pharmacy Professor said.
State lawmakers have passed bills over the last three legislative sessions to combat the opioid epidemic.
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Everyone who has a Part D prescription program needs to look at Medicare plan compare to see what plans are coming in 2020.
Most all of the programs that I looked at now has DEDUCTIBLES UP TO $450 for 2020.
Using this website… one can sort the resulting Part D policies by several different options… default is lowest monthly premium.
BE CAREFUL.. if you go to a previous page and return to the list of policies the program goes back to the default sort
BE CAREFUL… one of the policies I checked on my wife showed that she her med costs would exceed and put her into the catastrophic level… but.. then also stated that she would not even get INTO the “donut hole” … in looking at the information… one of the very inexpensive meds – WAS NOT COVERED…. but did not PLAINLY STATE SO..
BE CAREFUL…. I called one of the programs – talking to a “insurance salesperson” and was told that the monthly premiums was $2+ more per month than stated on the website.
Medicare open enrollment ENDS DECEMBER 7th
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