PHARMACIST STEVE

Can You Get Over an Addiction? www.nytimes.com/2016/06/26/opinion/sunday/can-you-get-over-an-addiction.html?_r=0 I SHOT heroin and cocaine while attending Columbia in the 1980s, sometimes injecting many times a day and leaving scars that are still visible. I kept using, even after I was suspended from school, after I overdosed and even after I was arrested for dealing, despite knowing that […]

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High Rate of Suicide Attempts Seen in Arthritis Patients, According to Canadian Study http://www.painmedicinenews.com/Web-Only/article/07-16/High-Rate-of-Suicide-Attempts-Seen-in-Arthritis-Patients-According-to-Canadian-Study/36885/ses=ogst People with arthritis have twofold higher suicide rates than the general population, according to new research from the University of Toronto. Investigators analyzed data from the 2012 Canadian Community Health Survey – Mental Health, which included 4,885 individuals with arthritis and […]

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Judge Allows Lawsuit Claiming Starbucks Underfills Lattes www.nytimes.com/2016/06/22/business/judge-allows-lawsuit-claiming-starbucks-underfills-lattes.html The plaintiffs, Siera Strumlauf and Benjamin Robles, contended in a class-action complaint filed in March that the popular drinks were underfilled by about 25 percent of their advertised sizes: 12, 16 and 20 ounces. We all see the law firm Morgan & Morgan https://www.forthepeople.com/  “Personal Injury Lawyers […]

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Maybe it is just a coincidental that the war on drugs took a dramatic shift toward prescribers and indirectly toward pts 1-2 yrs after Obama came to power. We have seen practitioners being raided by the DEA and thousands of chronic pain pts being thrown to the street and the “wolves”. We have seen them […]

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I made this post I am going to start making FB posts and tweets a couple of days ago and listed the FB and twitter accounts for the major presidential candidates. For two days in a row, I have made a post on these and they HAVE NOT BEEN DELETED… If you suffer from an […]

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Obama names first national monument to LGBT rights http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/24/travel/stonewall-inn-first-lgbt-national-monument/index.html There is a estimated NINE MILLION members of the LGBT community.. and in reality they have been discriminated against often by the same police/judicial system whose core mission is to “serve and protect”.   Congress has passed laws against discrimination against particular segments of our society… by […]

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This post can be found under RESOURCE tab There are an estimated 106 million chronic pain pts… plus untold number of spouses and kids as well as millions of healthcare professional being screwed with by the DEA, CDC, FDA and the rest of the alphabet soup of Fed agencies.  I have put together a list […]

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Dr. Manny: Report on fatal medical errors highlights need for more transparency http://www.foxnews.com/health/2016/06/24/dr-manny-report-on-fatal-medical-errors-highlights-need-for-more-transparency.html In early May, a report was published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) declaring that medical errors are the third leading cause of death among Americans. Specifically, a retrospective analysis of four studies concluded that 9.5 percent of Americans who die each […]

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We all know or have heard of CPP exercising the final solution to put an end to their chronic pain. IMO the bureaucrats are fully aware of what their actions are causing and/or going to cause.  That is why we are seeing a change in the nomenclature… they are no longer using the words “junkie” […]

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That is what has been put on the table by one or more Presidential candidates… Does anyone realize HOW STUPID THAT IS ? Not everyone has “the smarts” to go to college… not everyone has the dedication to make it thru college.. by dedication I mean to be grown up enough to make sure that […]

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