A covert “GENOCIDE” using our healthcare system

Genocide is the intent to systematically eliminate a racial, ethnic, religious, cultural or national group. Well-known examples of genocide include the Armenian Genocide, the Holocaust, the 1971 Bangladesh Genocide, the Cambodian Genocide, and more recently the Rwandan Genocide and the Bosnian Genocide. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide This post may be viewed by some as politically incorrect… I don’t […]

we really have to focus on reducing the magnitude of the prescription drug use issue

Man Uses Burrito To Sneak Heroin-Filled Syringe Into Hospital, Police Say (Photo) http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/crime/man-snuck-heroin-filled-syringe-hospital-inside-bag-food-photo#article-fb-comments According to Michael Botticelli Deputy Director at Office of National Drug Control Policy who has a BS in Psychology claims to have the medical expertise to make the following quote: According to Botticelli, “medical professionals are not properly equipped to deal with […]

You would wonder if the bureaucrats in TN consulting with anyone before passing these laws

Well I have reached out to the buprenorphine advocates a long time ago .. I’V reached out to state senators doctors pharmacies …I mean I have exhausted so so many options …I’m grasping at straws now .. I watched TN pass bill 871 last year which has some good things in it ,but it also […]

Collateral damage from the war on drugs ?

This post was on another site: “This is a very sad post. This is a post that could be about any of us here. I’m heart sick that we are still fighting with people who don’t see what is really happening to us. I just received a message that a chronic pain sufferer took her […]

2015 year in review… the war on drugs …success.. failure ?

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2015 in review … what killed us

http://www.romans322.com/daily-death-rate-statistics.php Notice that drug OTC/Prescription overdose deaths are way down on SECOND PAGE.. using bureaucratic philosophy… should everything above those line items.. BE DECLARED A EPIDEMIC ? CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE  – might have to click twice

They don’t feel your pain.. so why should they prescribe you opiates ?

Hospital’s Opioid Guidelines Had Significant Impact http://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2015/12/30/hospitals-opioid-guidelines-had-significant-impact An opioid prescribing guideline adopted in 2013 at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia may provide a sneak peek at the possible impact of similar guidelines being considered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Temple University’s guidelines, which discourage opioid prescribing for many emergency room patients […]

Members of Congress beat out telemarketers and lobbyists BUT NOT CAR SALESMEN… and we keep reelecting these people ?

http://www.drugstorenews.com/article/pharmacists-ranked-no–latest-gallup-ethics-poll Members of Congress beat out telemarketers and lobbyists BUT NOT CAR SALESMEN… and we keep reelecting these people ?

Central Oregon docs start project to curb opiate abuse

Central Oregon docs start project to curb opiate abuse Daily drug limit standards will take effect in 2016 http://www.bendbulletin.com/health/3033516-151/central-oregon-docs-launch-project-to-curb-opiate# In 2016, a community standard will limit the daily dose of opiate drugs prescribed for Central Oregon’s Medicaid patients: No more than the equivalent of 120 milligrams of morphine. It’s a standard that’s already in use […]

A Former Federal Peer Reviewer’s Analysis of the Draft CDC Guidelines

A Former Federal Peer Reviewer’s Analysis of the Draft CDC Guidelines http://nationalpainreport.com/a-former-federal-peer-reviewers-analysis-of-the-draft-cdc-guidelines-8828910.html In my former life prior to chronic pain and illness I had many important and fascinating jobs.  One was as a peer reviewer for the United States National Institutes for Health (NIH), Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS), and Substance Abuse and Mental […]