PHARMACIST STEVE

https://www.cdc.gov/about/24-7/ending-epidemics.html   Imagine this one of CDC’s current goals is to INCREASING the number of people seeking NON-OPIATE pain management options.  Everyone should look at the link above and see all the non-contagious disease issues they are expanding their interest in. does this suggest that the chronic pain community should not expect any revised CDC […]

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90% of heroin addiction starts in high school. Opiate addiction is more than likely genetically triggered not created like other types of addiction: alcohol, cocaine and amphetamines. Treating early will prevent deaths. How do you identify addiction early? A simple question all prescribers need to learn to avoid lawsuits and the horrors of opiate addiction […]

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There has been a lot of talk about tolerance, dependence and addiction. We are going to give you the facts about the confusion and refute physicians who restrict opiate prescribing and how the invalidity of cause and effect harming millions of the nations ten million chronic pain patients.

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The assumption of feckless doctors “overprescribing” an undefined government term, leading to more overdose deaths and addiction is incorrect. CDC has told us doctors what to do, to make prescribing “safe” give less pain medicine to those who need it. CDC, a non medical agency dissimilar from medical agencies like FDA and NIH, has medical […]

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https://www.nationalpaincouncil.org/  

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I wonder if the “damages” have to be directly or could they be INDIRECTLY for the federal officer(s) to be found guilty. Let’s looks at a hypothetical situation.  Say the DEA raids a practitioner’s office… a practitioner who specializes in high acuity pts…  each dealing with very severe incurable painful health issues. All are ultra […]

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MySafe is a vending machine that dispenses a heroin substitute called hydromorphone to patients whose biometrics have been programmed into it as part of a unique Vancouver program aimed at preventing overdoses. (January 22, 2020) I wouldn’t exactly call Hydromorphone a “Heroin Substitute” … Heroin (diamorphone) is metabolized in the body into MORPHINE, in fact […]

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They just announced on TV that the COVID-19 death account just reached 500,000…  That is just a little shy of the number of annual deaths from the use/abuse of tobacco & alcohol… but… I don’t see any media listing the names of all those deaths that could have been prevented. Could it be that those […]

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Before those in the chronic pain community get their “shorts in a twist” … in many country Heroin – otherwise known as diamorphine – is used as a legal form of pain management… It converts in the body to MORPHINE- on a mg to mg basis – 2-3 times more potent than MORPHINE.  There are […]

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Why Haven’s Encounter With Reality Proved Fatal https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/91274 Ex-CEO Gawande explains what went wrong for “model” healthcare venture When they made their bold announcement in mid 2018, three corporate powerhouses — Berkshire Hathaway, Amazon, and JP Morgan Chase — were going to revolutionize the healthcare delivery system. They would lower costs and improve quality and […]

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