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I’m a doctor who wants to treat addiction, but the rules won’t let me www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/im-a-doctor-who-wants-to-treat-addiction-but-the-rules-wont-let-me/2017/01/13/faaa6ee4-d2b0-11e6-9cb0-54ab630851e8_story.html Mr. B undid his arm bandages and revealed two large, gaping wounds where he injected his heroin. He lay back in his hospital bed, looked up at the ceiling and said with a quivering voice, “I can’t inject into my […]

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Physician Aid in Dying Gains Acceptance in the U.S. www.nytimes.com/2017/01/16/health/physician-aid-in-dying.html?ribbon-ad-idx=3&rref=health&module=ArrowsNav&contentCollection=Health&action=swipe&region=FixedRight&pgtype=article Judith Katherine Dunning had been waiting anxiously for California to adopt legislation that would make it legal for her to end her life. The cancer in her brain was progressing despite several rounds of treatment. At 68, she spent most of her day asleep and […]

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Medical culture encourages doctors to avoid admitting mistakes www.statnews.com/2017/01/13/medical-errors-doctors/ If you become the victim of a medical error, should you trust your doctor to be forthright about his or her role in the mistake? That could be a bad idea. An alarming new study says that most doctors would try to obscure their role in […]

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What happens if kratom becomes illegal? BY PBS NewsHour  January 15, 2017 at 12:56 PM EST The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has received thousands of comments on whether it should make a psychoactive painkiller called kratom illegal because some say it could be key to battling the country’s opioid epidemic. The DEA announced in […]

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Dr. Fox: Class-action lawsuit concerning prescription pet foods http://www.journalnow.com/relishnow/columnists/dr-fox-class-action-lawsuit-concerning-prescription-pet-foods/article_e648273a-18bf-50bc-a5c7-ba2a514ca175.html Dear Readers: Attorneys in California, Minnesota, Georgia and North Carolina filed a class-action lawsuit against the leading manufacturers and sellers of pet food: Mars, Nestle Purina, Hills, PetSmart and several veterinary hospital chains in California on Dec. 7. The four main pet food brands involved in […]

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Remember this comment from the CDC Guidelines docket? I don’t think there’s been a single day I haven’t thought about this poor husband. Docket CDC-2015-0112 “I write this from the intensive care unit waiting room, a suicide letter on my lap. My beloved wife is currently an ICU patient due to under treated chronic pain. […]

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Southern Indiana courts see rise in heroin, meth sentences http://www.dailyprogress.com/southern-indiana-courts-see-rise-in-heroin-meth-sentences/article_5a489ea9-04a1-5bff-9181-653eb1ace39a.html EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Recently released court statistics show a growing percentage of prisoners sentenced for federal drug crimes in southern Indiana are heroin offenders. A U.S. Sentencing Commission report shows that heroin accounted for nearly 13 percent of the sentences for federal drug crimes […]

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Methadone clinic fights public perceptions http://www.ncnewsonline.com/methadone-clinic-fights-public-perceptions/article_a6ca5a60-d9ee-11e6-a389-1f2ca472a845.html Our court system in 1917 declared that addiction was a CRIME and not a DISEASE and any prescriber that treats/maintain a addict by prescribing them opiates would lose their license. But now we have the Surgeon General claiming that addiction is a “brain disease” and the DEA is providing […]

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Bellingham mother filed lawsuit against DOC in wrongful death of daughter http://www.milforddailynews.com/news/20170115/bellingham-mother-filed-lawsuit-against-doc-in-wrongful-death-of-daughter BELLINGHAM – Late on a June evening, Jacqueline Olivo paced frantically in her cell at MCI-Framingham. The 40-year-old woman had been addicted to drugs for about half her life and was also struggling with mental illness and an infection. Olivo had been in […]

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