PHARMACIST STEVE

End violence by ending war on drugs http://www.sctimes.com/story/opinion/2016/07/23/end-violence-ending-war-drugs/87285478/ The war on drugs has made criminals of otherwise law-abiding citizens. Minority communities have been devastated, and our prisons are filled to a level never seen before. Story Highlights Drug war created gaping holes in Fourth Amendment and militarized police The drug war is waged disproportionately against […]

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  How Conflicts of Interest Have Corrupted the CDC http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2015/06/30/cdc-receives-funding-from-industry.aspx Conflicts of interest have become more the rule than the occasional exception. Even the trusted US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) receives heavy funding from industry. How this conflict of interest may have affected the organization’s decisions is the topic of an article1 […]

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DEA Report: Counterfeit Pills Fueling US Fentanyl & Opioid Crisis (Video) americansecuritytoday.com/dea-report-counterfeit-pills-fueling-us-fentanyl-opioid-crisis-video/ If your boss gave you an TASK/JOB to accomplish… would you come back and generate a report that clearly demonstrates that you were failing miserably… do you think that you would keep your job if you just produced a warning video telling everyone […]

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LETTERMAN’S TOP 10 REASONS TO VOTE DEMOCRAT https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20141031134832-41286125-letterman-s-top-10-reasons-to-vote-democrat #10. I vote Democrat because I love the fact that I can now marry whatever I want. I’ve decided to marry my German Shepherd. # 9. I vote Democrat because I believe oil companies profits of 4% on a gallon of gas are obscene, but the government […]

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Study: Medical mistakes 3rd-leading cause of death in U.S. http://www.kob.com/health-news/study-medical-mistakes-3rd-leading-cause-of-death-in-us/4207669/ A recent study suggests that medical mistakes are the third leading cause of death in this country. That means – surgical mistakes, prescription medicine mistakes, misdiagnosis and more. And medical error is not an “official” cause of death on death certificates so it can be […]

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Change the Guidelines for Refusing Prescriptions and Refills! https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/change-guidelines-refusing-prescriptions-and-refills Right now, pharmacists are able to deny valid prescriptions for any reason they see fit. This negatively impacts many citizens, including, but not limited to, women seeking birth control or emergency contraception, women seeking fertility medication, and transgender people seeking hormones. This needs to change. I […]

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First it was those in the chronic pain community being denied their legit/on time/medically necessary… Then CVS told smokers that they would need to take their business elsewhere – at least the purchase of their tobacco products… now, it would seem that – at least in this one Ohio store – members of the LGBT […]

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            Have you ever tried to round up a bunch of feral cats ? In efforts to get those in the chronic pain community to organize and commit to a common action.. I am not sure that rounding up feral cats wouldn’t be a lot easier. The last Presidential election […]

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The Myth of Morphine Equivalent Daily Dosage http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/863477 For far too many years, pain researchers and clinicians have relied on the concept of the morphine equivalent daily dosage (MEDD), or some variant of it, as a means of comparing the “relative corresponding quantity” of the numerous opioid molecules that are important tools in the treatment […]

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Suboxone Underused, Opioids Overused in Medicare Medicare patients who are addicted to opioids may not be getting the help they need http://www.medpagetoday.com/Psychiatry/Addictions/59206 Medicare prescribers don’t use buprenorphine-naloxone (Suboxone) as much as they should, given the high prevalence of opioid use disorder among their patients, researchers reported. In 2013, only 81,000 Medicare patients received buprenorphine-naloxone, even […]

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