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Many of us know… and many of us don’t know the fact that our court system in 1917 determined that opiate addiction was NOT A DISEASE but a CRIME. At that point, it became ILLEGAL for a prescriber to treat/maintain a addict. Bottom line… some attorneys decided that the mental health issue of addictive personality […]
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15 Years Later, Where Did All The Cigarette Money Go? http://www.npr.org/2013/10/13/233449505/15-years-later-where-did-all-the-cigarette-money-go Fifteen years after tobacco companies agreed to pay billions of dollars in fines in what is still the largest civil litigation settlement in U.S. history, it’s unclear how state governments are using much of that money. So far tobacco companies have paid more than […]
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Lives stolen: Arachnoiditis patients to gather in Helena for pioneering conference http://m.ravallirepublic.com/news/local/article_c0585854-44a9-11e6-b06b-5f994f714031.html No one can really understand their pain. Not their family. Not their friends. Not even most of their doctors can truly appreciate it. “You can’t know unless you’ve walked in our shoes,” said Nikki Rice. “I tell my family. I tell my friends, […]
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After Medical Marijuana Legalized, Medicare Prescriptions Drop For Many Drugs http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/07/06/484977159/after-medical-marijuana-legalized-medicare-prescriptions-drop-for-many-drugs Prescription drug prices continue to climb, putting the pinch on consumers. Some older Americans appear to be seeking an alternative to mainstream medicines that has become easier to get legally in many parts of the country. Research published Wednesday found that states that legalized […]
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House passes opioid package, which now heads to Senate http://www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article88535867.html WASHINGTON The House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a measure on Friday to help fight heroin and prescription opioid abuse after Democrats dropped a demand that the proposal include nearly $1 billion for drug treatment services. The legislation, which was crafted by a joint House-Senate committee, […]
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FDA Chief Criticizes Industry for Inaction on Opioids Califf: ‘We are all sinners,’ but drug firms bear special responsibility http://www.medpagetoday.com/Psychiatry/Addictions/58950 How many more parts of the Federal alphabet soup of agencies is going to get involved with how our health system deal with treating chronic pain and the mental health disease of addictive personality disorder […]
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TBI warns of dangers of buying drugs on streets after 10 overdoses in Rutherford County http://wkrn.com/2016/07/07/tbi-warns-of-dangers-of-buying-drugs-on-streets-after-10-overdoses-in-rutherford-county/ MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (WKRN) – If you get pain pills from anywhere other than your local pharmacy, you may want to think twice before taking them. Authorities said the number of people found unconscious and then rushed to the emergency […]
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Is our “gene pool” deteriorating or have we reached a “critical mass” of security cameras and/or smart phones that very little slips by without having a video of citizens “acting badly”. Those “citizens” can be both police and civilians. The last 12 months have been quite lethal between citizens and cops and cops and citizens. […]
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