PHARMACIST STEVE

It was reported today that the State of Maine has implemented “cookie cutter opiate dosing”… I expect that just like the CDC guidelines… prescribers and various healthcare entities will state that they are implementing these new guidelines and they will IGNORE the pts that are exempt from these limits. You can’t successfully sue the state… […]

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Central Maine patients fear weaning off opioids as they struggle with chronic pain http://www.centralmaine.com/2017/01/21/central-maine-patients-fear-medication-weaning-as-they-struggle-with-chronic-pain/ If the doctors in Maine read the law and observe the exceptions to the daily mgs limits… chronic pain pts will be properly treated… Pts entitled to palliative care is exempt from this limits and the definition of palliative care is […]

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An ‘insurance warrior’ fights to get pricey therapies covered https://www.statnews.com/2016/04/25/insurance-warrior/ Her name is passed from one desperate family to another like an amulet. In phone conversations and online chat rooms, she’s mentioned at moments when the devout might call on a patron saint. A baby born with a deformed skull? “Call Laurie.” An impossibly expensive […]

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Cadden boasted of control over federal regulators http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2017/01/20/cadden-boasted-control-over-federal-regulators/96806082/ Many “pain docs” that deal with implanted pumps uses these compounding pharmacies for the medications that they put in those pumps… because there is only one FDA approved opiate approved for use in those implanted pumps INFUMORPH (Morphine).. but because they can add a Lidocaine type product […]

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Opioid alternative linked to spike in WV overdose deaths  http://www.wvgazettemail.com/news/20170121/opioid-alternative-linked-to-spike-in-wv-overdose-deaths-#sthash.UpsAQ0gV.dpuf Aug 6, 2016… I posted this: Gabapentin the next medication to become a “controlled substance” ? I nothing else… bureaucrats/politicians are fairly predictable A drug being touted as a safer alternative for treating pain than more powerful prescription opioids is contributing to an increasing number […]

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I am sure that there is some truth to the statement that “their addiction started with a prescription for some opiate pain medication “ Recently there was a article by F. Perry Wilson, MD  http://www.medpagetoday.com/PainManagement/PainManagement/62462  who claims that 1.3% of addicts started with a prescription.  When you consider that there are abt 230 million adults […]

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From my INBOX: Heroin use does not “usually begin with the use of legally prescribed opioid pain killers” and studies bear this out. The rate of addiction (3-6% of the population) and misuse of prescription medications by Chronic Pain Patients (CCPs = 30-34% of the population) is no greater than all forms of addictions in the general population. […]

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  . “Suspicious” painkiller orders, DEA suspends a FL drug distribution center’s sales http://www.fox4now.com/news/suspicious-painkiller-orders-fl-pharmaceutical-drug-distribution-sales-suspended Pharmaceutical drug supplier McKesson Corporation has been fined and suspended from sales of certain controlled substances in several states, including Florida, after failing to flag a series of “suspicious orders,” according the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).  Mckesson has been fined $150 […]

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Trump Signs Order to ‘Ease the Burden of Obamacare’ http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/874779? Soon after he was sworn in, President Donald Trump signed a series of executive orders, including one to “ease the burden” of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), according to news reports. The executive order was not yet on the White House website as of press […]

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Not sure if just Pharmacists or all licensed medical healthcare providers got this email in Florida… warning them that the actions of the DEA against Mc Kesson drug wholesaler may compromise their pt’s ability to obtain their necessary controlled medications. This warning is a result of actions by the DEA  McKesson said it would pay […]

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