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CDC: Fentanyl Urgent Public Health Prob www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2016/8/26/cdc-fentanyl-an-urgent-public-health-problem Who believes that the alphabet soup of federal agencies will change their direction of believing that legal opiate prescribing  is the major/direct cause of opiate addiction/abuse ? Maybe this information will force the DEA and others in law enforcement to change their enforcement focus. Maybe it will be […]

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Patient Abandonment http://www.thehealthlawfirm.com/resources/health-law-articles-and-documents/Patient-Abandonment.html Home Health Care ______________ Law Manual By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law An Aspen Publication Aspen Publishers, Inc. Gaitherburg, Maryland 1996  Patient Abandonment Introduction The relationship that exists between a physician and patient, or between other types of health care providers […]

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Florida Supreme Court allows lawsuit against doctor for patient’s suicide http://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/archives/2016/08/26/florida-supreme-court-allows-lawsuit-against-doctor-for-patients-suicide Nearly eight years after a Sarasota County woman committed suicide, the Florida Supreme Court said Thursday her husband can pursue a lawsuit against a physician about care provided before her death. Justices unanimously ruled that the case should go to trial, upholding a 2014 […]

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My Story: What About Our Rights? nationalpainreport.com/my-story-what-about-our-rights-8830709.html By Douglas Marsh I believe that one of the worst things that our wonderful government has done is target a group like the chronic pain community. For the most part, we are a group of people who at one time in our lives were active and very productive […]

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Ohio sheriff indicted on 43 counts, including 38 felonies Sheriff running for reelection http://www.wlwt.com/news/ohio-sheriff-indicted-on-43-counts-including-38-felonies/41346780 FREMONT, Ohio (AP) —An Ohio sheriff who is up for re-election this fall has been arrested on charges that he stole medications from prescription drug disposal drop boxes, deceived doctors into giving him painkillers and misused department funds. A grand jury […]

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Fighting Opioid Abuse with Technology https://cvshealth.com/content/fighting-opioid-abuse-technology-0 According to this press release from CVS.. there Pharmacist only have to have A FEELING… that a Rx is not for a legit use… they don’t need REAL FACTS… so OPIOPHOBIC PHARMACISTS are able to use their personal feelings, biases, phobias to deny care to legit pts. Much has […]

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Veteran Kills Himself in Parking Lot of V.A. Hospital on Long Island www.nytimes.com/2016/08/25/nyregion/veteran-kills-himself-in-parking-lot-of-va-hospital-on-long-island.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur A 76-year-old veteran committed suicide on Sunday in the parking lot of the Northport Veterans Affairs Medical Center on Long Island, where he had been a patient, according to the Suffolk County Police Department. Peter A. Kaisen, of Islip, was pronounced dead […]

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CVS Specialty Pharmacy is the absolute worst Pharmacy I have been involved with since becoming Ill http://www.newsmandan.net/my-journey-with-msa—blog/came-up-short-on-the-drug-for-controlling-my-ortho-static-hypotension Ortho-static Hypotension is a sudden drop of blood pressure from a known or unknown reason causing the pt to become anywhere from dizzy to a temporary black out.. causing the pt to collapse and putting them at risk of […]

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Cincinnati responds to 30 heroin overdoses in one day http://local12.com/news/hooked-on-heroin/district-3-police-respond-to-20-heroin-overdoses-in-one-day Obama’s first chief of staff Rahm Emanuel.. that this philosophy of how you could get done within the legislative process. “Things that we had postponed for too long, that were long-term, are now immediate and must be dealt with. This crisis provides the opportunity for […]

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THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE this is what the Representatives could be literally looking at if the chronic pain community comes together and VOTES THE BUMS OUT. So far calls from constituents, letters from constituents , on line petitions has caused not much more than a “virtual pat on the back” that they understand…. BUT… they […]

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