PHARMACIST STEVE

Walgreens wants you to take your pills http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20160816/NEWS03/160819917/walgreens-wants-you-to-take-your-pills People don’t take their pills like they’re supposed to. The doctor writes the prescription, the patients fill it at the drugstore—but they don’t pick up the refill or never fill it in the first place. It’s a huge problem for the health care economy. People with chronic […]

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Why We Should Demand That Congress Reschedule Marijuana http://www.attn.com/stories/10683/how-congress-should-reschedule-marijuana-unlike-dea Like most Americans who follow the debate over marijuana legalization in this country, I was disappointed that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration this week once again determined that marijuana has no medical use and left it in Schedule I of the federal Controlled Substances Act. Disappointed, […]

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Screw the DEA, this pot is legal http://www.seattlepi.com/local/marijuana/article/Screw-the-DEA-this-pot-is-legal-9144534.php In 2012, the citizens of Washington state and Colorado voted by large measures to go one step better than using marijuana for medical purposes. We voted to throw out the war on marijuana almost entirely. Alaska, Oregon did the same and so have other states. Then (*poke […]

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The DEA Says Marijuana As Dangerous As Heroin www.greenrushdaily.com/2016/08/15/dea-says-marijuana-dangerous-heroin This really demonstrates what a bunch of idiots within the DEA is … The UK still uses pharmaceutical grade Heroin for pain management… because it is diacetylmorphine and is metabolized into Morphine in the body and on a mg to mg basis it is 2-3 more […]

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Tom Cotton: Social Security disability causes drug addiction http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/sen-tom-cotton-social-security-benefits-cause-people-to-spiral-downward-into-heroin-addiction/ Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) suggested on Monday that population decline and drug abuse in poor areas could be the result of too many people on Social Security disability. Speaking to the conservative Heritage Foundation on Monday, Cotton warned that communities with high a percentage of residents […]

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Man claims wrong medication from Kroger accelerated kidney failure http://www.fox19.com/story/32756952/man-claims-wrong-medication-from-kroger-accelerated-kidney-failure A few years ago the OH BOP revoked a Pharmacist license when a tech mis-filled a IV for a 3 y/o and the Pharmacist was charged/convicted of manslaughter and spent 6 months in prison. CINCINNATI, OH (FOX19) – A Cincinnati man is fighting two battles […]

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This first story is sad on many fronts… apparently this pt was going to a independent “Good Neighbor Pharmacy” which is a franchise and the Pharmacist/owner died and his non-pharmacist wife hired a Pharmacist that may have come from one of those chains who don’t care if C-II are filled or not.. I suspect that […]

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Hospital fires doctor for having cancer               www.idealmedicalcare.org/blog/hospital-fires-doctor-for-having-cancer/?inf_contact_key=baa9eb052e17a041f8e740a04afe113a6e7ff40f82d66d94fd2fb9bbb51675d0 Dear Pamela, You’ll never guess what happened to me today. Hours after the National Day of Solidarity to Prevent Physician Suicide volunteer webpage went live, I received an email stating that I am officially terminated from my psychiatry residency program. On […]

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If everyone is doing their own thing… means that NOTHING HAPPENS Is there any hope that the chronic pain community is going to have some sort of Epiphany that NO ONE at the Federal or State level actually gives a CRAP about your pain. There is no bureaucracy for the bureaucrats to create to treat […]

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