https://youtu.be/6YldIdkjrqM
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Independent Pharmacist comes to the rescue of a chronic pain pts – being denied care by chain Pharmacist(s)
Posted on October 6, 2017 by Pharmaciststeve
Hi Steve I checked you narcotic pain medications I had a wreck when I was 40 years old which my spine was bowed out like a sea and I was a bodybuilder at that time and they told me that was the only way they could get it manipulated back straight over the course of the last 20 years my spine has deteriorated sufficiently I have five or six different diagnosis is none which are good Pain Management Group tells me my case is the worst in the clinic now I had Winn-Dixie She Wonderful gentleman as my pharmacist for over 5 or 6 years at that time my father had died in August of 2016 going back and forth to Oklahoma I’ve returned to the clinic in the pharmacy to find they had been shut down.
My records were sent to CVS and at that time a millenium pharmacist yell down to me with 20 people around the counter to which him went to my church it says narcotics in your hand that I don’t want to feel so I was able to go to Kmart across the street from where I live in Egyptian Lady by the name of Gigi had asked me to come there a year prior but like I said Joe Morton and Rec K or wonderful to me they never questioned what my daughter doctor had ordered at this time Kmart has closed and I got back to CVS and they’ve never wanted to fill a prescription from my doctor but did the last probably 6 or 7 months this month returning from a trip on my last tablet take a nap because it very long trip I get to the pharmacy she tells me I have forgot my progress notes I leave the prescriptions she calls me about half the way there and tells me she cannot feel for my doctor no one has actually been able to tell me the reason why they’ve told me different things his de number is fd1589172 his name do last name hoi first name my primary care doctor sent me there in probably 2008 or nine my trigger points had lasted that long but when they wore off they wore off big I am so miserable now just having my two long-acting tablets I can barely function I’ve planned a birthday party for 85 year old dance 6 months ago and I’m sitting in my car in front of Walmart not even able to go in to buy tablecloth I’ve got to make a long drive to Georgia and no one will help me
I was reading that there is such a thing as withdrawal from under prescribing and I truly believe I’m going through it they say I’m one in a million I don’t have thoughts of wanting to take more medication because I truly know that my pain is there every day with me I told my daughter the other day I’m truly starting to look forward to that day I bend over and become paralyzed.
I have suffered for 17 years after my divorce and I was finally able to buy a little house my dad and mom both had to die for me to be able to buy this little house and now I think the last thing I should worry about is where I’m going to get my medication I certainly don’t have the ability to walk from Pharmacy to Pharmacy and driving get out of the car and going go I can’t do it I’m looking for a new pain management doctor have been on list for one in Pinellas County for several years is there anyway you can look under that DEA number and tell me what he is under investigation for
at one time the clinic I’m sure had far too many people I just would go in sit down never say anything to any of them I needed something for pain in my primary doctor couldn’t give me but 5 mg Percocets
I suggested that this pt contact a independent pharmacist that I knew near the area where she lived….
FOLLOWUP FROM PT:
I wish to thank you from the bottom of my heart. Dele referred me to Royal pharmacy in tampa. Raye is my pharmacist.
Shes working on my prescriptions now. Dele referred her to me. Shes sweet as an angel. So thanks for all u do.
Warmest Regards
Some pharmacists believe that part of their job is to be a HEALTHCARE PROVIDER…others appear to believe that refusing to fill a pt’s prescription is actually providing appropriate pt healthcare. Most of those latter Pharmacists seems to primarily be working for chain pharmacies.
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it is estimated that at least 10 percent of INDIANA NURSES are addicted to alcohol or other drugs
Posted on October 6, 2017 by Pharmaciststeve
Nurse admitted diverting $72,000 of opioids
RICHMOND — The Indiana attorney general’s office is seeking disciplinary action against the license of a nurse who admitted diverting $72,000 worth of opioids from Reid Health hospital.
The registered nurse, Michelle Hibbard, 43, allegedly was caught with nine vials of opioid pain medication while on duty at the hospital, which declined comment for this article.
According to an administrative complaint, the hospital’s administrative coordinator on Jan. 7 confronted Hibbard after receiving a complaint that she had pulled several doses of fentanyl and dilaudid that were never administered to patients.
Asked to empty the pockets of her scrubs, Hibbard produced seven vials containing fentanyl and hydromorphone, according to the complaint. She also reportedly admitted that she had consumed another vial of fentanyl by squirting it into her mouth.
In addition, a strip search uncovered a blister pack containing a hydromorphone tablet, a tourniquet, a needle and two vials of hydromorphone in her underwear, according to the complaint.
The Richmond nurse reportedly admitted diverting and intravenously using drugs from the hospital for nearly half a year — at a rate of between one and 10 doses of pain medication a day.
Hospital records showed that she stole nearly 900 units of medication valued at about $72,000.
Hibbard, who declined comment for this story, has entered a three-year recovery monitoring agreement with the Indiana State Nurses Assistance Program (ISNAP).
In August, Hibbard pleaded guilty to felony drug and theft charges, for which she received probation and a suspended sentence of 547 days in prison. The next day, the attorney general filed a complaint asking the state board of nursing to impose disciplinary sanctions against Hibbard’s license. The case remains pending.
Reid Health referred questions for this article to law enforcement.
“I think the opioid crisis is getting worse, according to all of the statistics, but we have not seen an increase in the number of nurses referred,” ISNAP program director Chuck Lindquist told The Star Press. “We are currently monitoring over 400 nurses, and we have 70 in intake. Obviously, that’s less than 1 percent of folks with Indiana nursing licenses.”
There are about 140,000 nurses in Indiana, he said, and it is estimated that at least 10 percent are addicted to alcohol or other drugs. “That means 14,000 nurses are … possibly struggling with addiction, and we’re seeing only 500 of them,” Lindquist said. “There are some nurses in the throes of addiction that we just don’t hear about until they’re caught diverting or coming to the work place impaired.”
In the past year, ISNAP intakes actually decreased to 241 compared to 297 the previous year. “We have seen a bit of an increase in the use of heroin over the past 12 to 18 months,” Lindquist said. “But if overall opioid use is getting worse, we’re not getting additional referrals as a result. Most of our nurses are referred through their employer or the attorney general.”
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Roe, Kuster, MacArthur Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Manage Opioid Prescribing
Posted on October 6, 2017 by Pharmaciststeve
Roe, Kuster, MacArthur Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Manage Opioid Prescribing
https://roe.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=398231
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, Reps. Phil Roe, M.D. (R-Tenn.), Annie Kuster (D-N.H.) and Tom MacArthur (R-N.J.) introduced the Opioid Addiction and Prevention Act of 2017, legislation to limit initial post-acute care opioid prescribing to ten days. The legislation would not preempt state law in states that have more limited timeframes for these prescriptions and would not have any impact on patients who utilize opioids for the regular management of chronic pain.
The members released the following statements:
“The opioid epidemic is devastating communities across the United States, including my home state of Tennessee, with more people dying from opioid overdoses than car wrecks,” said Roe. “As a physician, I am keenly aware that patients may need pain medication following a medical procedure or hospital stay, but patients experiencing intense pain that lasts ten days should be evaluated further by their physician. The reality is too many people become addicted to these drugs because their initial prescriptions keep them on these drugs longer than necessary. Furthermore, excess unused prescriptions too often end up as a supply source for addicts, including family members. This commonsense bill will ensure any patient prescribed opioids after receiving post-acute medical attention will have the close provider supervision required to ensure the responsible management of pain during their recovery. This legislation will help curb the opioid epidemic and will not have any impact on patients who are prescribed opioids for chronic pain, cancer care or end-of-life treatments.”
“The opioid epidemic is having a serious impact on communities in New Hampshire and across the country,” said Kuster. “It is clear that the historic rise of opioid addiction in America was fueled in part by the excessive prescription of opioids drugs. While seeking to relieve patients of their pain after surgery or other procedures is well-intentioned, it is troubling that Americans consume about 80% of the world’s supply of opioid medications. This legislation would address the crisis by encouraging prescribers to provide, when appropriate, non-opioid alternatives prior to opioid medications, and if patients are to receive opioids, they will only receive a dosage and amount necessary to relieve their pain. We need to overcome the prescription opioid crisis, in order to overcome this public health emergency.”
“Drug addiction has impacted so many families in New Jersey and in many communities across the country,” said MacArthur. “For far too many Americans, this addiction is starting not on the streets, but in the medicine cabinet. This legislation will ensure that prescribers limit the initial supply of addictive opioids in order to prevent prescription drug abuse and combat the opioid epidemic. The drug crisis is too big for any of us to fight on our own. We need everyone—federal and local government, members of our communities, and medical professionals working together to overcome this epidemic.”
Background: A March 2017 article from the Mortality and Morbidity Weekly Report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that there is a sharp increase in the likelihood a patient would use opioids long-term in the first days of prescribing, particularly after five days. A recent Washington Post story found that at least 17 states have taken steps to limit opioid prescribing, many of which limited the prescribing window to five to seven days. This legislation would not impact these existing state laws.
Another bureaucratic hypocrite, by a educated/trained physician, who is part of a profession that is responsible for 200,000 – 400,000 deaths per year from MEDICAL ERRORS. And his statement:
with more people dying from opioid overdoses than car wrecks.. there are more people dying from ALL DRUG OVERDOSES – than car wrecks… which included drug OD deaths from non-controlled medications – abt 40%… and an increased number > 50% of the opiate OD’s are from ILLEGAL OPIATES… which means that more people die from CAR CRASHED ….. than legal prescription opiates – and not all OD’s from prescription opiates – were the prescription opiates LEGALLY OBTAINED… which means that deaths from car wrecks are many times those from legally obtained prescription opiates… so why are we not limiting who can drive cars or selling cars that can go faster than the speed limits. My 2015 car displays on the dash the speed limit of the street/road that I am driving on… so why can’t the car manufacturers put a speed governor on cars so that drivers CAN’T SPEED ? How many lives would that save ?
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More “OPINIONS” stated as FACTS and FAKE NEWS to support the fabricated opiate crisis ?
Posted on October 6, 2017 by Pharmaciststeve
Opioid Prescriptions in the ED: Not What Many Believe
Emergency nurses, nurse practitioners and physicians have heard the rumors.
Many speculate that America’s growing problem of opioid addiction often starts in the emergency department, where practitioners freely write prescriptions for drugs like oxycodone, hydrocodone and methadone for their patients who present with acute pain.
But a new study shows that these perceptions don’t really hold water.
Opioid prescriptions from the emergency department (ED) are written for a shorter duration and smaller dose than those written elsewhere, shows new research led by Mayo Clinic. The study, published September 26, 2017, in the Annals of Emergency Medicine, also demonstrates that patients who receive an opioid prescription in the ED are less likely to progress to long-term use.
This challenges common perceptions about the ED as the main source of opioid prescriptions, researchers say.
“There are a few things that many people assume about opioids, and one is that, in the ED, they give them out like candy,” says lead author Molly Jeffery, PhD, scientific director, Mayo Clinic Division of Emergency Medicine Research.
“This idea didn’t really fit with the clinical experience of the ED physicians at Mayo Clinic, but there wasn’t much information out there to know what’s going on nationally,” she added.
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The prescription opioid study
To study 5.2 million opioid prescriptions written for acute – or new-onset – pain across the United States between 2009 and 2015, the researchers used the OptumLabs Data Warehouse, a database of de-identified, linked clinical and administrative claims information.
None of the patients in the study had received an opioid prescription for the previous six months, which made it easier to compare doses by eliminating patients who built up a tolerance to the drugs.
The surprising results
Researchers found that commercially insured patients who received opioid prescriptions from the ED were:
- 44 percent less likely to exceed a three-day supply than those written elsewhere;
- 38 percent less likely to exceed a daily dose of 50 milligrams of morphine equivalent, which is almost seven pills of five-milligram oxycodone per day;
- 46 percent less likely to progress to long-term opioid use.
An opioid prescribing guideline from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued in 2016 cautions against exceeding a 3-day supply or 50 milligrams of morphine equivalent per day for acute pain.
The researchers found similar results with Medicare patients.
“As an emergency physician, it was a good surprise to see the results of the study,” said senior author M. Fernanda Bellolio, MD, research chair of the Mayo Clinic Department of Emergency Medicine.
Also unexpected, the researchers say, were the number of prescriptions that exceeded 50 milligrams of morphine equivalent per day.
The upward trend in opioid overdose deaths
Prescription opioids have been the topic of much research and political debate in recent years, and for good reason.
More than 41 people per day died from a prescription opioid overdose in 2015, and in the last 15 years, the number of Americans receiving an opioid prescription and the number of deaths involving overdoses have roughly quadrupled, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Countless other cases of opioid abuse continue to threaten the public health, resulting from both prescription and nonprescription opioids.
Comparisons and risks of opioid prescriptions
The Mayo Clinic researchers found that 1 in 5 commercially insured patients in a non-emergency department setting received a dose exceeding the CDC guideline. People receiving prescriptions exceeding CDC recommendations – regardless of where they were written – were three times more likely to progress to long-term use.
“Patients and physicians should be aware of the risk of long-term use when they’re deciding on the best treatment for acute pain,” Bellolio said.
Jeffery agreed.
“I think providers may look at this and really get a sense that what they do with that first prescription can be very important in the risk of the patient continuing to chronic use of opioids,” she commented.
“What we want to avoid is people having a large prescription and having lots of pills left over,” Jeffery continued, “because at that point it becomes a risk for their family members and other people who come to their home, that those drugs could be diverted, where somebody who is not the intended recipient takes the drug and potentially takes it for nonmedical reasons and in an unsafe way.”
“Limiting prescriptions to 3-7 days is a good balance between patient burden on having to go back to the physician and that safety,” she added.
The researchers hope this study will help combat what the CDC calls an opioid epidemic by working toward an ideal prescription to match each patient’s need.
“There is a large amount of variability across patient populations in the amount of opioids people receive for acute pain, depending on where they receive their prescription,” Jeffery said. “When we see variability on such a large scale, we should worry that some people are not getting the best, most appropriate treatment.”
The researchers also note a positive trend: The proportion of prescriptions progressing to long-term use dropped over the study’s 15-year period.
The team now is studying what’s driving the differences between ED prescriptions and other practice settings. They hope shedding light on why there’s a difference will reduce the variation in prescriptions and help health care providers determine the best treatment for each individual.
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BREAKING: Trump-Pence Administration Unleashes Sweeping Anti-LGBTQ #LicenseToDiscriminate
Posted on October 6, 2017 by Pharmaciststeve
https://youtu.be/XsvB8jBgQuk?t=4m0s
BREAKING: Trump-Pence Administration Unleashes Sweeping Anti-LGBTQ #LicenseToDiscriminate
http://www.hrc.org/blog/breaking-trump-pence-administration-unleashes-license-to-Discriminate
Today, HRC strongly condemned the Trump-Pence administration’s decision to carry out a sweeping “license to discriminate” that puts millions of LGBTQ Americans at risk of discrimination, as well as release a new regulation that could deny millions of Americans access to critical contraceptive care previously guaranteed under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
“Today the Trump-Pence administration launched an all-out assault on LGBTQ people, women, and other minority communities by unleashing a sweeping license to discriminate,” said HRC President Chad Griffin. “This blatant attempt to further Donald Trump’s cynical and hateful agenda will enable systematic, government-wide discrimination that will have a devastating impact on LGBTQ people and their families. Donald Trump and Mike Pence have proven they will stop at nothing to target the LGBTQ community and drag our nation backwards. We will fight them every step of the way.”
“It’s unconscionable that the Trump-Pence administration also today encouraged employers to exert control over the essential health care decisions of their employees,” continued Griffin. “The rule change on contraception will undoubtedly limit access to vitally important care that women and so many in the LGBTQ community rely on every day. We each deserve to have the freedom to live and plan our lives with dignity, and this administration’s reckless efforts to undermine the health care of millions of Americans must be stopped.”
In May, Donald Trump signed an order that threatened to exacerbate anti-LGBTQ discrimination by laying the groundwork for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to implement the license to discriminate announced today. Already, more than 50 percent of Americans live in an area of the U.S. where LGBTQ people are at risk being fired, evicted, or denied services because of who they are — and two-thirds of LGBTQ people report having faced such discrimination in their lives.
A preliminary analysis of the Trump-Pence administration’s license to discriminate indicates that LGBTQ people and women will be at risk in some of the following ways:
- A Social Security Administration employee could refuse to accept or process spousal or survivor benefits paperwork for a surviving same-sex spouse
- A federal contractor could refuse to provide services to LGBTQ people, including in emergencies, without risk of losing federal contracts
- Organizations that had previously been prohibited from requiring all of their employees from following the tenets of the organization’s faith could now possibly discriminate against LGBTQ people in the provision of benefits and overall employment status
- Agencies receiving federal funding, and even their individual staff members, could refuse to provide services to LGBTQ children in crisis, or to place adoptive or foster children with a same-sex couple or transgender couple simply because of who they are
The guidance instructs federal government attorneys on how to handle matters before them and instructs federal agencies to reconsider current and future regulations in light of this license to discriminate. It’s important to note this Department of Justice interpretation of existing federal law is not consistent in the way that federal courts have interpreted these issues and are subject to legal challenges.
When Jeff Sessions was swore into office that he pledged that he would PROTECT AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION of the UNITED STATES
And guess which dept, if there is a violation of the Americans with Disability Act and/or the Civil Rights Act a person files a complaint with ? https://www.ada.gov/filing_complaint.htm
US Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Civil Rights Division
Disability Rights Section – 1425 NYAV
Washington, D.C. 20530
So, if the DOJ fails to enforce violations of the two above laws… is Attorney General guilty of violating his oath of office ? Should he – and others in the agency, who are involved with not enforcing our laws… BE REMOVED FROM OFFICE ?
Jeff Session, upon being confirmed as AG… stated that he would be a “by the book” law enforcer… apparently “the book” that he was referring to has a LOT OF PAGES MISSING !
While this article is about the LGBTQ community… is this just another segment of our society that the Federal bureaucracy and this administration has decided that it’s “moral compass” is not aligned with those same bureaucrats ? How many different segments of our 320 million population is this administration will – or already has – decided are not “morally aligned” with the administration’s and the country’s morals – as defined by our “over lords” residing in DC. Of course, we “mere mortals” can DE-THRONE those over-lords at the voting booth. How many of the 52 senators that confirmed Jeff Session as AG… are up for re-election next year ?
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Investigation: Drug court rehabs survive on forced labor
Posted on October 5, 2017 by Pharmaciststeve
Investigation: Drug court rehabs survive on forced labor
Judges across the country are ordering defendants into recovery centers that are little more than work camps for private industry, an investigation by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting has found.
The programs promise freedom from addiction. Instead, they’ve turned thousands of men and women into indentured servants, exploiting a nationwide push to keep nonviolent offenders out of prison.
The rehabs send defendants to companies large and small: a Coca-Cola bottling plant in Oklahoma, a construction firm in Alabama, a nursing home in North Carolina. The rehabs get paid. The participants do not.
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This article was provided to The Associated Press by the nonprofit news outlet Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting. To read – or publish – a full version of this investigation go to: https://revealnews.org/nopay .
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Perhaps no rehab better exemplifies this allegiance to big business than Christian Alcoholics & Addicts in Recovery, also known as CAAIR , in the northeastern corner of Oklahoma.
It was started in 2007 by chicken company executives struggling to find workers. By forming a Christian rehab, they could supply processing plants with a cheap and captive labor force while helping men overcome their addictions.
Defendants work in grueling conditions at chicken plants owned by Simmons Foods Inc., a company with annual revenues of $1.4 billion. They work alongside paid employees, churning out chicken products and pet food for some of America’s largest retailers and restaurants, including Walmart, KFC and PetSmart.
Reveal interviewed scores of former participants and employees, court officials and judges, and reviewed hundreds of pages of court filings and workers’ compensation records.
Among the findings:
– The program may violate the 13th Amendment, which bans slavery and allows forced labor only for people convicted of a crime. Many men sent to CAAIR have not yet been convicted and later have their cases dismissed.
“You’ve got to be kidding me,” said Noah Zatz, a professor specializing in labor law at UCLA. “That’s a very strong 13th Amendment violation case.”
– The authors of Oklahoma’s drug court law believe it is illegal for judges to send defendants to CAAIR. The law requires drug courts to use programs that are certified by the state. CAAIR is not. Rather than professional addiction treatment, the program mainly relies on faith and work.
“That is insanity gone to sea,” said former state Sen. Dick Wilkerson, who wrote the law. “That’s illegal. They can’t do that. That is the law, and it has to be followed.”
– CAAIR administrators use the threat of prison to push defendants to work, even when they are injured. Men who were hurt on the job have been kicked out of CAAIR and sent to prison.
“They work you to death,” said Nate Turner, who spent a year at CAAIR. “They know people are desperate to get out of jail, and they’ll do whatever they can do to stay out of prison.”
– CAAIR routinely files workers’ comp claims on defendants’ behalf and collects the payments. By law, those payments are required to go to the injured worker.
“That’s fraudulent behavior,” said Eddie Walker, a former judge with the Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission. “What’s being done is clearly inappropriate.”
Courts across Oklahoma and neighboring states send about 280 men to CAAIR each year. Some men say it changed their lives. But few ultimately finish. In 2014, 26 percent completed the program.
Instead of paychecks, they get bunk beds, meals and Alcoholics and Narcotics Anonymous meetings. They can meet with a counselor or attend classes on anger management and parenting. Weekly Bible study is mandatory. So is church. But the priority is clear to former employees and participants: Work overshadows everything else.
“Money is an obstacle for so many of these men,” said Janet Wilkerson, CAAIR’s founder and CEO. “We’re not going to charge them to come here, but they’re going to have to work. That’s a part of recovery, getting up like you and I do every day and going to a job.”
Wilkerson also put the men to work for her own needs. They remodeled her home and helped her daughter move. She called it community service.
Jim Lovell, CAAIR’s vice president of program management, said there’s dignity in work.
“If working 40 hours a week is a slave camp, then all of America is a slave camp,” he said.
Chicken plants are notoriously dangerous, and men in the CAAIR program said injuries were common at Simmons. Their hands became gnarled after days hanging thousands of chickens from metal shackles. One man said he was burned with acid while hosing down a trailer. Others were maimed by machines or contracted serious bacterial infections.
Many drug courts use CAAIR because there is a shortage of affordable treatment programs. Defendants can wait up to nine months to get into a residential program. At CAAIR, there’s no wait list and “it doesn’t cost the state of Oklahoma one penny,” said Pontotoc County Judge Thomas Landrith.
Brandon Spurgin was struggling with a meth addiction when the Stephens County drug court sent him to CAAIR in 2014.
He was working at the chicken plant one night when a metal door crashed down and split his head open. Even though he was in severe pain and had a dozen staples in his head, Spurgin kept working. If he didn’t, CAAIR could kick him out, and he would be sentenced to 15 years in prison.
“You’re just there to work, make them money,” Spurgin said. “I’d rather go to prison than do that again.”
Three years later, Spurgin has graduated from drug court but is in chronic pain and unable to work full time. CAAIR filed for workers’ compensation on his behalf and took the $4,500 in insurance payments. Spurgin said he got nothing.
Over the years, Simmons repeatedly has laid off employees while expanding its use of CAAIR. For some shifts, the plants likely would shut down if men in the program didn’t show up, according to former staff members and plant supervisors.
Simmons spokesman Donny Epp said the company doesn’t need CAAIR to fill a labor shortage.
“It’s about building relationships with our community and supporting the opportunity to help people become productive citizens,” he said.
But the CEO of Simmons has told CAAIR that he needed more workers and helped CAAIR expand. In 2015, the rehab opened another dorm. It was paid for by Simmons.
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Email reporters Amy Julia Harris and Shoshana Walter at aharris@revealnews.org and swalter@revealnews.org and follow them on Twitter at https://twitter.com/amyjharris and https://twitter.com/shoeshine .
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California Supreme Court Gives California Medical Board Approval To Invade Doctor / Patient Privacy Laws
Posted on October 5, 2017 by Pharmaciststeve
California Supreme Court Gives California Medical Board Approval To Invade Doctor / Patient Privacy Lawswww.doctorsof
Medical Board Fishing Expenditures Also Allowed
This is a case where doctor Alvin Lewis, an internist working out of Burbank California, filed a lawsuit against the Medical Board of California alleging they invaded his privacy and went on a fishing expenditure, leading to him being charged by the medical board for excessively prescribing pain medications and placed on probation for three years. The original medical board complaint had to deal with a diet that he came up with “five bite diet,” which ultimately led to a patient complaining to the medical board. The medical board looked into the complaint and found that doctor Alvin Lewis did nothing wrong and did not violate any rules in his care and treatment for the patient. The Supreme Court ruling was published in July of 2017.
Instead of closing the complaint after no wrongdoing was found to have taken place; the medical board investigative team, consisting of a dully sworn police officer, DOJ prosecutor, and a deputy attorney general lawyer – they started snooping into the prescription dispensing program to identify any patient that he had treated with prescription pain pills that was questionable or if the patients were drug addicts or had criminal backgrounds. This is what disturbed doctor Alvin Lewis to the point of hiring an attorney at Fenton Law Group to file a complaint against the medical board for going on a fishing expenditure and tapping into confidential patient records when their investigation into the original complaint turned-up nothing illegal or wrongdoing on his part. After snooping into perhaps hundreds and thousands of prescription records within the Controlled Substance Utilization Review system, they then identified several patients where they allege were prescribed painkillers excessively, by doctor Lewis.
The Supreme Court Made Its Decision
The Prescription Dispensing Monitoring Report is full of inaccuracies and criminal impressions. The state of California is a cesspool of fraudulent prescriptions and prescription thefts occurring on a daily basis. There is an equal, larger base of illegal painkillers from China and other countries that is actually responsible for 70 percent of the illegal prescriptions sold on the streets. The legal prescription written by doctors are not the major cause of overdose deaths and this information is not being communicated correctly to the people of this country. This lawsuit shows how the government is overreaching and abusing their authority by going into private patient files and conducting witch hunts to charge physicians and nurses.
The Judge who made his opinion on the ruling stated that doctor Lewis case would have a some teeth to it if he would have referenced his concerns to a similar federal case that is still pending adjudicated. The fishing expenditures needless to say, were not mentioned because the medical board has conducted these types of unconstitutional investigations for years. This is classic; somebody makes a complaint about dietary concerns to the medical board and they know the doctor did nothing wrong, but they prey into his business and patients to seek to cause harm to his practice and threaten his livelihood as a doctor. This is what a fishing expenditure is by nature, an illegal practice of incriminating someone based on nothing and manufacturing a case.
How Can You Make A Difference?
- BECOME A MEMBER: Please support Doctors of Courage and our fight against unlawful Government abuse of doctors and healthcare providers nationwide. Your Membership helps to provide support for thousands of doctors who are being unlawfully jailed and stripped of their medical careers for treating patients with legal prescriptions.
- JOIN THE FIGHT: Please support the American Pain Institute (API) at www.americanpaininstitute.org and get involve with their PAIN ADVOCACY WEEK, April 23rd – 30th, 2018, March On Washington and donate to help this cause. Thousands of Chronic Sickle Cell patients’ lives are being drastically reduced and they are dying because doctors are afraid to follow NIH treatment guidelines due to bigotry and government wrongful persecution of doctors in this country.
- HELP MAKE CHANGE: Sign our petition requesting that Congress enact a Medical Board Civilian Police Review Committee law to deter medical board police and prosecutorial misconduct and hold these officials responsible for their actions. The most common crime against doctors made by the medical board police teams are “FALSE REPORTS” that police officers refer to as accusations. These are criminal actions by law enforcement and they are not held accountable for making false statements, perjury, and manufacturing evidence. A Civilian Review Committee will help stop these senseless acts against healthcare providers and restore justice and constitutional rights.
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FDA Hints It May Look Into Marijuana Health Claims
Posted on October 5, 2017 by Pharmaciststeve
FDA Hints It May Look Into Marijuana Health Claims
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration may start cracking down on claims that marijuana has health benefits that haven’t been proven, the agency’s commissioner said Tuesday.
“I see people who are developing products who are making claims that marijuana has antitumor effects in the setting of cancer,” FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said at a hearing before Congress on a separate matter. “It’s a much broader question about where our responsibility is to step into this.”
It’s high time to start looking at rules around the plant, which some states have legalized for medicinal or recreational use, the commissioner said.
“We’ll have some answers to this question very soon because I think we do bear some responsibility to start to address these questions,” Gottlieb said.
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‘Doc Vader’ Rants on ‘PBM Villians
Posted on October 5, 2017 by Pharmaciststeve
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