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Medical community, law enforcement partner against opioid epidemic Groups working together to fight local opioid epidemic http://www.southbendtribune.com/news/publicsafety/medical-community-law-enforcement-partner-against-opioid-epidemic/article_f5cd53bf-d40a-5096-b39f-ce9c731a4408.html       SOUTH BEND — The murder of Dr. Todd Graham over an opioid prescription dispute last week   has galvanized the local medical community to seek help fighting a growing problem.   “The medical community has […]

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CVS Health removes 17 drugs as part of its 2018 formulary management strategy http://www.drugstorenews.com/article/cvs-health-removes-1-drugs-part-its-01-formulary-management-strategy WOONSOCKET, R.I. — CVS Health on Wednesday outlined its plan for formulary management in 2018, which includes the removal of 17 products from its Standard Control Formulary. The move is part of the company’s rigorous approach to formulary management that it […]

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prosecutors will help addiction-ravaged cities http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/ag-sessions-address-opioid-epidemic-hard-hit-ohio-48980919 Sessions: The Justice Department will dispatch 12 federal prosecutors to cities ravaged by addiction who will focus exclusively on investigating health care fraud and opioid scams that are fueling the nation’s drug abuse epidemic, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Wednesday. He unveiled the pilot program during a speech in […]

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At Your Defense: Are Physicians Actually Making More Mistakes? http://journals.lww.com/em-news/Fulltext/2017/08000/At_Your_Defense__Are_Physicians_Actually_Making.11.aspx Fatal medical errors are on the rise, alarmingly so when comparing the latest data with the watershed estimate from the Institute of Medicine that has been used for nearly two decades. But a 2016 study by Martin Makary, MD, MPH, put the mean rate of […]

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Police: Pharmacist refuses to fill prescription unless woman removes clothes http://wivb.com/2017/08/01/police-pharmacist-refuses-to-fill-prescription-unless-woman-removes-clothes/ NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (WIVB) — Niagara Falls police say a pharmacist coerced a woman into removing her clothes before filling her prescription Tuesday morning. Robert Kenzia, 81, is a licensed pharmacist at McLeod’s Pharmacy in Niagara Falls. Police charged him with Coercion after they […]

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Chronic Widespread Pain Patients More Likely to Die Early Lifestyle may explain excess mortality in fibromyalgia and other chronic pain patients https://www.medpagetoday.com/Rheumatology/Fibromyalgia/66955?xid=nl_mpt_Weekly_Education_2017-08-02&eun=g5705800d1r People who have chronic widespread pain die earlier than those without chronic pain, reported new research from the United Kingdom, and lifestyle may play a significant role in their mortality. Chronic widespread pain […]

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Pharma company settles lawsuit in Canada preventing further action on opioid crisis www.rumblenews.net/pharma-companies-lawsuits-opioid-crisis/ Pharmaceutical company Purdue, which produces the prescription drug OxyContin that is causing widespread overdoses in Canada and the US, are on the verge of a settlement with provincial governments which could bar any further action from being taken against them in combating the […]

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Opioid addiction quintupled since 2010 and 10 other findings in new study http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2017/07/opioid_addiction_rate_has_quin.html An estimated 8.3 of every 1,000 Blue Cross Blue Shield members were diagnosed with “opioid use disorder” in 2016, five times the rate in 2010, according to a Blue Cross Blue Shield Association study released this week. The report, “America’s Opioid Epidemic and […]

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2017 NATIONAL PHARMACY TECHNICIAN REGULATION SCORECARDS https://emilyjerryfoundation.org/   The map on the hyperlink page is interactive… Pharmacists are required more and more to rely on the support of technicians. But some states have seemingly placed very little necessity that the “technicians” who is assisting the Pharmacists to have any education or proper training.  Only FIVE […]

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