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BREAKING NEWS ~ A Human Rights Lawyer has joined our Board of Directors for Give Pain A Voice, and will be consulting for us on how to address discrimination against pain patients this coming year !! Makes me so happy. https://www.facebook.com/groups/Pandemicofdenial For all of you healthcare professionals who are “not comfortable” treating chronic pain pts […]

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http://youtu.be/8UMyz7ClFVE This page is going to contain posts made on other places on the web by those in chronic pain and how the war on drugs has turned into a war on pts. The number of people who are abusing some substance is not going down, but the number of chronic pain pts not being […]

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Forest Grove man wrongly arrested by Hillsboro cops, sues for $4 million http://www.oregonlive.com/forest-grove/index.ssf/2015/02/forest_grove_man_wrongly_arres.html A Forest Grove man is suing the city of Hillsboro and six police officers for $4 million after he was mistakenly arrested for a string of Hillsboro and Beaverton pharmacy robberies last year. Adam M. Horstman alleges civil rights violations, false arrest […]

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Man to claim self-defense for DEA agent in predawn drug raid http://www.thestate.com/2015/02/06/3973817_man-to-claim-self-defense-for.html?rh=1#storylink=cpy At issue: whether Joel Robinson, 32, is guilty of a crime for shootinga DEA agent in the first few seconds of a surprise federal law enforcement raid last October at his Orangeburg house. Agents expected to find a cache of drugs, but a […]

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Rooting out health care fraud is central to the well-being of both our citizens and the overall economy. http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/investigate/white_collar/health-care-fraud Health care fraud costs the country tens of billions of dollars a year. It’s a rising threat, with national health care expenditures estimated to exceed $3 trillion in 2014 and spending continuing to outpace inflation. Recent […]

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California Prosecutors Settle PHI Breach with Retailer http://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/california-prosecutors-settle-phi-breach-18997/ Beginning in 2012, California environmental regulators and others began investigating the grocery store chain Safeway relating to the company’s waste disposal practices. During the investigation, certain documents listing medical and personal information on dozens of pharmacy patients were found among the waste.  In allegations set forth against […]

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CVS Accuses Former Director Of Stealing Trade Secrets http://www.law360.com/articles/617109/cvs-accuses-former-director-of-stealing-trade-secrets Law360, Los Angeles (January 30, 2015, 8:21 PM ET) — CVS Pharmacy Inc. on Friday in California federal court accused a former senior director of specialty clinical services of emailing himself copies of sensitive company information on his way out the door to work for a […]

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          CVS Provided Counseling to 67,000 in Four Months After Halting Sales of Tobacco http://www.cancerletter.com/articles/20150206_7 A year after it announced its decision to stop tobacco sales, CVS Health released data that shows how its stores are working to deliver the anti-smoking message. According to CVS, from the launch of the program […]

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  Robbing a pharmacy when controlled meds are involved is a FEDERAL CRIME … like robbing a bank… So the FBI is required to get involved. As law enforcement shut down, or intimidate prescribers into stop writing or writing fewer controls… those that both want and or have a legit medical necessity will find some […]

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As we all know … there is a lot of things going on in both pharmacy and the chronic pain community. Between the number of emails,, phone calls and face book issues.. my unread/unaddressed inbox had gotten out of control… when you have 10-30 emails every day that you keep putting of “until tomorrow” because […]

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