PHARMACIST STEVE

US Does Not Need Warrant to Subpoena Oregon Drug Data https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/oregon/articles/2017-06-26/feds-dont-need-warrant-to-subpoena-oregon-drug-data PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency does not need a court order to subpoena a prescription drug database kept by the state of Oregon, but the ruling did not specify whether […]

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There are dozens of laws on the books that is suppose to protect segments of our population against discrimination regarding several different issues. We have both the Civil Rights Act 1964 and The Americans with Disability Act 1990 and yet various Fed/State Agencies pass rules, laws, regulations, guidelines that discriminate against portion of our populations that […]

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Suicide Among Veterans and Other Americans 2001 – 2014 https://www.mentalhealth.va.gov/docs/2016suicidedatareport.pdf  

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Social Impact of Pain group announces that WHO will now classify chronic pain as a disease entity under the new edition of The ICD 11. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/social-impact-pain-group-announces-who-now-classify-chronic-mangino SOCIETAL IMPACT OF PAIN: The conviction of Doctor Mangino was obtained by convincing jurors that prescribing opioids for chronic pain was to be done only according to The World […]

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‘Tortured to death’ by bureaucrats; Veteran protests for better care http://harrisondaily.com/news/tortured-to-death-by-bureaucrats-veteran-protests-for-better-care/article_e35261a6-5533-11e7-ab61-9b97824c9d17.html https://www.facebook.com/GarysStand/ ‘Tortured to death’ by bureaucrats; Veteran protests for better care Gary Howard, a former Army Ranger who served in Vietnam, was out protesting the Department of Veterans Affairs on Monday to help push for better health care treatment for all veterans. A 2014 […]

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I’ve read your 2014 article about pharmacists refusing to fill legitimate/on-time prescriptions. Well my mother is having issues here in florida with filling a narcotic prescription that she has a legal and legitimate script for. She is on social security disability. She had issues with a discount pharmacy that wanted her to transfer all of […]

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How to Find a Good Drug Treatment Program and Avoid the Bad Ones http://www.nbcnews.com/feature/megyn-kelly/how-find-good-drug-treatment-program-avoid-bad-ones-n776101 Where there is addiction, there is hope. That’s what experts like Michael Botticelli, who was the Obama administration’s “drug czar,” want people to know. Botticelli is a firm believer that people suffering from drug and alcohol addiction can get well. “One […]

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Clinton issues warning on opioid crisis: ‘It’s going to eat us all alive http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/bill-clinton-issues-warning-on-opioid-crisis-%E2%80%98it%E2%80%99s-going-to-eat-us-all-alive%E2%80%99/ar-BBD7rrt Former President Bill Clinton addressed the opioid and drug crisis on Saturday, telling mayors from across the country that the U.S. is far behind in dealing with the issue. “It’s going to eat us all alive,” the former president warned at […]

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In the Medicare system – like most other insurance companies – have an appeal process for denial of payment of claims… All those various insurance providers do not want pts to know but NOTHING – in regards to denial of claims is in CONCRETE… they all have appeal processes… they don’t have to tell you […]

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