state has about 7,000 inmates with hepatitis C, and treating them… would cost $600 million

Posted on January 5, 2017 by Pharmaciststeve

Federal judge orders state to provide Mumia Abu-Jamal with hepatitis C treatment http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20170104_Federal_judge_orders_state_to_provide_Mumia_Abu-Jamal_with_hepatitis_C_treatment.html Pennsylvania has abt 13 million population or abt 4% of the USA population…  so the 600 million to treat these inmates in PA could represent a 15 BILLION liability if you expand that to all the prison population in the USA. Any […]

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Fentanyl Deaths Have Spiked Across the US, With No Sign of Slowing Down

Posted on January 4, 2017 by Pharmaciststeve

Fentanyl Deaths Have Spiked Across the US, With No Sign of Slowing Down http://abcnews.go.com/US/fentanyl-deaths-spiked-us-sign-slowing/story? Morgan Gilman, 21, of Manchester, New Hampshire got in her car and drove three hours to buy a supply of fentanyl. When she arrived, she took the “normal amount” and got back in her car to drive home, but not before […]

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survey.. Consumer self-reports of impaired access to health care services for pain management

Posted on January 4, 2017 by Pharmaciststeve

Consumer self-reports of impaired access to health care services for pain management How have you been affected by the reclassification of opiate medications or changes to state laws? https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/reportpainmanagement_prescribing INSTRUCTIONS TO RESPONDENTS-   For the millions of American patients experiencing an acute medical need or living with chronic pain, opioids, when prescribed appropriately, can allow […]

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Indianapolis doctor wins defamation judgment against #CVS

Posted on January 4, 2017 by Pharmaciststeve

Indianapolis doctor wins defamation judgment against CVS http://www.theindianalawyer.com/indianapolis-doctor-wins-defamation-judgment-against-cvs/PARAMS/article/42428 An Indianapolis physician whose patients were told at multiple CVS pharmacies that their prescriptions couldn’t be filled because the doctor had been arrested or was suspected of running a pill mill won a defamation judgment against the drugstore chain. Dr. Anthony Mimms was granted summary judgment Tuesday […]

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DHS Agents Bribed to Let Drugs, Illegal Aliens into U.S.

Posted on January 4, 2017 by Pharmaciststeve

DHS Agents Bribed to Let Drugs, Illegal Aliens into U.S. http://www.citizen-action.com/dhs-agents-bribed-let-drugs-illegal-aliens-u-s/article4636 While the nation was preoccupied celebrating the holidays and welcoming a new year, two disturbing news articles—reiterating what Judicial Watch has reported for years—shed additional light on the critical situation in the southern border region. The first, an investigative piece by one of the […]

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What use to be consider pt abuse/malpractice is now the “new standard of care”

Posted on January 4, 2017 by Pharmaciststeve

https://youtu.be/gVRXT_j9sCQ   Doctors are cutting opioids, even if it harms patients www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/01/02/doctors-curtail-opioids-but-many-see-harm-pain-patients/z4Ci68TePafcD9AcORs04J/story.html? This article is very disturbing in that it plainly points out what is going on in our country and it is being done at the directive of many in both the Fed/State judicial and legislative systems.  IMO.. the war on drugs has quickly […]

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25,000-Signature Goal Set For Petition Asking President-Elect Trump To Stop DEA’s War On Kratom

Posted on January 4, 2017 by Pharmaciststeve

25,000-Signature Goal Set For Petition Asking President-Elect Trump To Stop DEA’s War On Kratom https://www.yahoo.com/news/25-000-signature-goal-set-petition-asking-president-162200630.html WASHINGTON, Jan. 4, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Less than three weeks remain for supporters of kratom to sign the petition at www.PetitionTrumpForKratom.com urging President-elect Donald Trump to either halt the DEA/FDA push to criminalize kratom or to reverse any 11th hour […]

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The “ART OF MEDICINE” is DEAD… Medicine “BY THE NUMBERS”

Posted on January 4, 2017 by Pharmaciststeve

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ONE LAST CALL FOR ASSISTANCE

Posted on January 4, 2017 by Pharmaciststeve

I have created a new twitter account @painedlives and painedlives@gmail.com. There is a methodology of creating “lists” within Twitter so that you can send a tweet to a large number of people with a single tweet. Dr Linda Cheek has done a lot of work generating a spread sheet with contact info for the members […]

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DOC threatens pt with DISCHARGE for taking LEGAL SUPPLEMENT

Posted on January 4, 2017 by Pharmaciststeve

This showed up as a post in another “CLOSED”  FACE BOOK  “pain group”. There are only FOUR STATES where KRATOM is illegal ( WI, IN, TN, VT), but it would appear that some prescribers have decided to start testing for this SUPPLEMENT and promising/threatening pts with discharge if they have KRATOM show up in urine […]

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