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Motivate and don’t lecture patients, expert urges http://www.drugstorenews.com/article/motivate-and-dont-lecture-patients-expert-urges?utm_term=DSN&utm_source=MagnetMail&utm_medium=subject&utm_term=NACDS%20TSE%20Live%20Show%20Report%3A%20Business%20Program%20highlights%3B%20Costco%20and%20DSN%E2%80%99s%20reception&utm_content=DSN-NLE-PDX%20TSE%20Daily-08-24-15 DENVER — How can a pharmacist improve patients’ adherence to their medication therapy and encourage healthier behavior? Don’t lecture, don’t scold and don’t preach.  That’s the message Bruce Berger, president of Berger Consulting, had for attendees of his insight session on “Medication Adherence and the Role of […]

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Some Illinois health systems say no to medical marijuana http://www.stltoday.com/lifestyles/health-med-fit/medical/some-illinois-health-systems-say-no-to-medical-marijuana/article_787193a2-0be9-5338-a62b-003276aa0f48.html CHICAGO • Patients must have a doctor’s signature to buy medical marijuana in Illinois, but some health systems are forbidding doctors from putting pen to paper because the drug is still illegal at the federal level. Others are cautiously allowing doctors to participate in the […]

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This is audio tape of the FL BOP’s committee meeting. At this meeting, there was two DEA spokespersons, Unfortunately this audio is nearly three hours long, but there are some interesting segments from all the participants. One thing that I found interesting is they talk about common sense and critical thinking skills interchangeable and as […]

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Officials: Discarded ashes blamed in $2 million Lititz apartment building blaze http://lancasteronline.com/news/local/two-alarm-fire-in-apartment-building-just-outside-lititz/article_ab9e5a5c-484d-11e5-930b-07f436c9267d.html A family members’ 87 year mothers lost everything in this fire…she was a regular patient at a CVS around the corner from this fire. Her son took her to the CVS and the refused to give her a few days and told her […]

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Vets with PTSD sue Colorado for blocking medical pot prescriptions https://www.rt.com/usa/313085-ptsd-medical-marijuana-colorado/ Five people with PTSD are bringing a lawsuit against Colorado over its decision not to allow their condition to be treated under the state’s medical marijuana program, even though the substance is already legal in the state for recreational purposes. The plaintiffs include four […]

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Addiction series: Regulating Indiana’s abuse of prescription drugs http://www.kokomotribune.com/news/local_news/addiction-series-regulating-indiana-s-abuse-of-prescription-drugs/article_8610ba5c-481e-11e5-b6c7-df78b66ae7e5.html It is amazing, Indiana’s AG has a change of his opiophobic heart when 170 HIV + pt shows up in a small (25 K population) county in Southern Indiana.. What is not stated is that the vast majority of these same pts also have Hep B&C  […]

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Judge dismisses ID theft lawsuit against pharmacies http://triblive.com/news/adminpage/8944994-74/judge-lawsuit-cannot#axzz3jJMpuOD2 A Sewickley lawyer cannot impose a legal obligation on CVS and Giant Eagle pharmacies that doesn’t exist in law, a federal judge ruled Wednesday in dismissing a lawsuit seeking to hold the pharmacies responsible for identity theft. Andrew Gabriel sued the retailers in a proposed class-action lawsuit […]

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Is this a verbal revelation of how a politician/attorney thinks… you can’t educate/change minds… you need more laws..  We already have 10 -15 million laws to enforce the TEN COMMANDMENTS !  So we need more laws that the judicial system may or may not enforce and/or be selective in how they are enforced and/or who […]

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Is the crusade against pill mills turning into a witch hunt? http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2015/08/is-the-crusade-against-pill-mills-turning-into-a-witch-hunt.html I care for a 65-year-old woman suffering from sarcoidosis affecting her lungs, her skin, her bones, her nerves, her blood chemistries, her kidneys, her colon and her mind. She has gone from an active spouse, mother, grandmother, tearing up the dance floors with […]

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Severe Chronic Pain is a Killer – Study Finds http://updates.pain-topics.org/2010/04/severe-chronic-pain-is-killer-study.html Previous research has demonstrated a clearly negative influence of chronic pain on health. Now, a new study portrays a profound link between severe chronic pain and death; inflicting nearly a 70% greater mortality risk than even cardiovascular disease. In 1996 a large cohort of 6,940 […]

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