PHARMACIST STEVE

this is some items included in a Narxcare report… IF you notice Narxcare – someone – has CREATED a LME (Lorazepam ) Lorazepam Milligram Equivalents – just the TIP OF THE ICEBERG in this reporting system – there is a WHOLE LIBRARY of 3 color informational handouts the practitioner can print out. Also notice that […]

Filed under: General Problems | 7 Comments »

We have been always been the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA… Our Constitution plainly states what is to be managed by the Federal gov and what is the responsibility of the states. We are not the 50 regional members of the North America Federalization Government. This has been a interesting month for the bureaucrats in Washington […]

Filed under: General Problems | 2 Comments »

This past week, we had a LESS THAN FOUR YEARS OLD Whirlpool washer FAIL ON US..  We had purchased it from a local owned appliance store we have been patronizing for some 3+ decades. We used a repairman that they recommended – didn’t know at the time that this guy had worked for a local […]

Filed under: General Problems | 6 Comments »

Filed under: General Problems | Leave a Comment »

To protect people with addiction from discrimination, the Justice Dept. turns to a long-overlooked tool: the ADA https://www.statnews.com/2022/06/22/to-protect-people-with-addiction-from-discrimination-the-justice-dept-turns-to-a-long-overlooked-tool-the-ada/ It was at Massachusetts General Hospital that Bryan found the care he needed for his opioid use disorder. He had previously tried, without success, to just quit. But when the hospital’s renowned addiction medicine team prescribed him […]

Filed under: General Problems | Leave a Comment »

From a short websearch – MO Healthnet – seems to be the state of MO Medicaid program.  Will many of the practitioners in MO just pull out of the Medicaid program or will they end up just applying Medicaid prescribing rules to all their pts…  so that they will not accidentally exceed the dosing limit […]

Filed under: General Problems | 15 Comments »

I suspect that this law, is a law is to preempt any consequences to the anticipated overturning of the Roe vs Wade concerning abortions. Just read the test of the bill that is RED below… What happens if a health insurance company or a major healthcare corporation that declares that ALL CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ARE ADDICTING… […]

Filed under: General Problems | 4 Comments »

Very interesting study, abt 11-12 yr period that STOPPED TWO YEARS before the CDC 2016 opiate dosing guidelines were published, but after the DEA started cutting pharma production quotas.  The real BOTTOM LINE seems to be very VAGUE… only 18 states were involved without stating the percentage of the country’s total population.   The number of […]

Filed under: General Problems | 5 Comments »

Former CDC director Tom Frieden arrested on sexual misconduct charges https://www.statnews.com/2018/08/24/former-cdc-director-tom-frieden-arrested-on-sexual-misconduct-charges/ NEW YORK — Dr. Thomas Frieden, the former head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was arrested and charged with sexual misconduct charges on Friday. Frieden, who led the CDC from 2009 to 2017, was charged with forcible touching, sexual abuse, and […]

Filed under: General Problems | 3 Comments »

Supreme Court Finds HHS Violated Drug Reimbursement Rules for Low-Income Patients https://www.theepochtimes.com/supreme-court-finds-hhs-violated-drug-reimbursement-rules-for-low-income-patients_4543386.html The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) illegally reduced prescription drug reimbursements to hospitals by $1.6 billion per year in a program aimed at helping poor patients. The decision, a win for hospitals serving low-income individuals, […]

Filed under: General Problems | Leave a Comment »