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another chronic painer putting out a informational blog
Posted on February 24, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve
Just a thought !
Posted on February 24, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve
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Passing this along …
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Pts unable to find an attorney that will go up against the DEA ?
Posted on February 24, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve
Hi. Just want to let you know that patients of Dr Lesly Pompy have started suing the DEA over their medical records being illegally obtained during the raid on Dr Pompy’s office on 9/26/16. Unable to find a lawyer to take the case, the patients are representing themselves. A hearing was just held and the cases were consolidated and the case moves forward. More people are filing. Should be up to 23 filing by next week. Not sure if you want to do a story on this or follow what is happening with the case. Thank you for your time,
No other proof… charge prescriber with INSURANCE FRAUD..
According to this pt, no attorney wants to DEAL WITH THE DEA… it is almost like they have DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY… maybe it is because the legal profession is just one BIG LEGAL FRATERNITY and you don’t attack a fraternity brother ?
It is claimed that about 40% of Congress are ATTORNEYS… does that explain a lot about how no one can get their attention about illegal imported Fentanyl being the primary reason behind OD’s. More “fraternal protection” ?
It has been only in the last couple of years … now that more and more cops are wearing body cameras that a few cops have actually been charged/convicted for some of their actions where a private citizen …. ends up dead or seriously injured.
It would appear that those 100 million chronic pain pts in this country are on their own and no part of our bureaucratic system is going to help/protect you. It looks like Robert Rose (https://sickofsuffering.com/ ) and this group of pts are moving in a direction that all chronic pain pts who are being abuse are going to have to take.
Start filing complaints with the appropriate agencies (Board of Pharmacy, Board of Medicine, state ADA .. etc…etc) and this is one of those situations where SIZE MATTERS… a few complaints will be discarded/ignored because they will presume that it is some substance abuser that is unhappy because they couldn’t get their next fix/high… Start filing complaints in the courts. How many more pts have to end up being bed/chair/house confined because their meds have been cut or pushed to suicide as the only solution they have to end their unrelenting intractable chronic pain.
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Doctors to tell lawmakers of patients left suffering because of opioid crackdown
Posted on February 23, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve
I-Team: Doctors to tell lawmakers of patients left suffering because of opioid crackdown
LAS VEGAS – Despite their influence and stature, Nevada physicians are not overtly political, but it looks like doctors are planning to make their presence known at the Nevada Legislature this year.
Monday is designated as doctor day at the legislature, where physicians and medical organizations hope to make an impression on lawmakers.
One issue at the top of their list of concerns is the regulation of pain management, which doctors say has become burdensome for them and deadly for their patients.
Hours after being released from a month-long hospital stay, Theresa Hatter told the I-Team about the moment she was first diagnosed with arachnoiditis.
“I couldn’t see. It was the worst pain I ever had. If you were saying pain on a scale of 1 to 10, I was at a 15,” Hatter said.
For 16 years, she was a model patient in pain management. Opioid medication was her only relief. Then out of the blue, her doctor told her goodbye and good luck.
Reporter George Knapp: “With pain medication you had a life?”
Theresa Hatter: “I had a life.”
Reporter George Knapp: “And now you don’t?”
Theresa Hatter: “I’m in bed.”
In the 90s, Tracy Davis was shot in the back. The bullet ripped through his stomach and lung and is still inside, until recently his insurance paid for pain medication. But then the culinary union plan ordered his doctor to cut the meds in half.
Reporter George Knapp: “Someone decided you don’t need it?”
Tracy Davis: “Yes. They never even ran a test on me.”
Across the country, the great opioid crackdown continues. Doctors have been pressured into cutting or eliminating pain medications against their own medical judgements. Insurance companies have cut or eliminated coverage. Pharmacy chains have imposed their own — often severe — limitations or requirements.
Doctors like Maurice Gregory are squeezed by regulators, lawmakers, insurance executives, and pharmacists, none of whom have examined the actual patients.
“This anti-opiate has gotten to the extreme of sacrificing people’s lives,” said Dr Maurice Gregory, Las Vegas physician. “We are already sacrificing people’s quality of life.”
Opioid prescriptions are now at their lowest point in 15 years, but overdose deaths are at their highest in that same time. Cutting medications for legitimate pain patients has had no effect on addicts’ overdosing.
What it has done is to create suffering for millions of people whose mistake was they got sick or injured and are now expected to live the rest of their lives in pain.
“You can live 30, 40, 50 years with these diseases. The only thing you can do for them is control the pain. There’s no reason, why would we not want to do that,” said Terry Murphy, public policy consultant. “And yet we are taking medication away from them and forcing them to live in torture in America in 2019. Why?”
Murphy has had multiple surgeries and was a pain patient herself. Now, she is helping Nevada doctors to mobilize. Murphy and others including medical associations are gearing up to make their presence known at the Nevada Legislature. Among the goals is to get a handle on changes imposed two years ago which give pharmacists the ability to deny or alter prescriptions or to make excessive demands for patient information or new tests.
“These decisions need to be made between a doctor and a patient and what is happening is between a doctor, a pharmacy benefit manager, a pharmacist, an insurer, and the patient gets lost in that equation and the doctor who really wants to help the patient is frustrated,” Murphy said.
While doctors here feel under the gun, Murphy says Nevada is already less draconian than some states. She thinks that pending legislation could make Nevada into a model for the rest of the country, with appropriate safeguards, but also something missing from the system — compassion.
It sounds like from this report the Nevada state legislature has turned the Medical Licensing Board into a PAPER TIGER. The legislature has apparently granted about anyone that has something to do with the healthcare system in Nevada the legal right to practice medicine. Don’t have to have a medical degree, don’t have to do a in person physical exam/evaluation… just create some personal or corporate “cookie cutter policies” that can be applied to EVERYONE.
I guess that the DEA could care less that controlled meds are being started, changed, stopped without the person – or corporation – doing it has done a in person exam/evaluation – as required by the Controlled Substance Act 1970.
The vast majority of the people who have a legal medical necessity for controlled meds are covered by the Americans with Disability Act.. so where are the civil rights attorneys or organizations. Nevada has 3 + million people so average stats would suggest that there are abt 300,000 intractable chronic pain pts in the state and another 700,000 or so dealing with some sort of chronic pain and at least on occasions have the need to have a opiate to get their pain under control.
Are these legislators believing the FACTOIDS that are being thrown around they are meaningful ? Are these FACTOIDS drowning out the REAL FACTS that have no relationship to those FACTOIDS ?
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Veterans: chance to “share” your “bad experiences” at a VA Hospital
Posted on February 23, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve
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Asked to pass this along ….
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NJ dealer caught with 83 bricks of heroin gets 6 months of rehab, no prison
Posted on February 23, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve
NJ dealer caught with 83 bricks of heroin gets 6 months of rehab, no prison
http://nj1015.com/nj-dealer-caught-with-83-bricks-of-heroin-gets-6-months-of-rehab-no-prison
TOMS RIVER — An admitted drug dealer who was caught with about 4,150 doses of heroin worth $25,000 was sentenced to just six months of rehab and five years of probation.
Gary Fox, 30, of Toms River, who has a criminal record that includes previous drug convictions, avoided prison by being accepted by Drug Court and pleading guilty to two counts of third-degree possession with intent to distribute and a count of possession.
Fox, however, does face an alternate prison sentence of 10 years in prison with 3 1/2 years of parole ineligibility if he fails to complete the Drug Court program, according to a spokesman for the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office, who added Wednesday that the sentence was not a result of a plea deal with prosecutors.
The Drug Courts, part of Gov. Chris Christie’s reform efforts in the wake of a massive heroin addiction epidemic gripping the state, are meant to provide drug users with rehabilitation instead of placing them behind bars. Drug Courts, however, are not for violent or hardened criminals.
The courts found Fox eligible for the program and he began rehab in November, remaining in custody until his guilty plea in January, prosecutors said. Court records show he spent 168 days in county jail.
Toms River police arrested Fox in May, saying he had 80 wax folds of heroin and $740 in cash. A search of his storage unit found an additional 83 bricks of heroin, which amounted to 4,150 doses and a cash value of close to $25,000, police said at the time.
A month later, police at his Old Street home found another 40 wax folds of heroin, more than 1.5 pounds of marijuana, $2,000 in cash, prescription medications, a scale and packaging materials.
Fox was initially charged with possession of heroin, possession of heroin with intent to distribute, possession of over 50 grams of marijuana, possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, possession of Alprazolam and Suboxone, and possession of drug paraphernalia.
He plead guilty to two counts of third-degree possession with intent to distribute and one count of possession.
Police on Tuesday said they could not provide more details about the investigation.
This is not the first time Fox has been sentenced to rehab as a result of drug charges.
In 2009, he received the same sentence from a different judge in Ocean County for arrests in 2006 and 2007 on charges of possession of cocaine and Percocet.
Fox was represented by the Public Defender’s Office.
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Modern hospital pain management for acute pain
Posted on February 22, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve
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Come out swinging
Posted on February 22, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve
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