Nothing personal… it is just a business decision… our bottom line is more important than your QOL

Posted on March 15, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve

Her daughter’s epilepsy was under control, but then their insurer stopped covering the drug: ‘It’s devastating.’ http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-illinois-nonmedical-switching-bill-0315-story.html It took four years for Joanne Guthrie-Gard to find the right seizure medication for her daughter, whose epilepsy, during the worst of it, caused her to have 20 seizures a week. That medication started to have bad side […]

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Human Rights Watch Investigating U.S. Pain Treatment

Posted on March 15, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve

www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2018/3/15/human-rights-watch-investigating-treatment-of-pain-patients Human Rights Watch is well-known internationally for its groundbreaking reports on human rights violations around the world. The organization has recently reported on the torture of prisoners in Sri Lanka, forced labor in Thailand, and corruption and mass arrests in Saudi Arabia. Pain News Network has learned the New York-based non-profit is turning its […]

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FDA to Lower Nicotine in Cigarettes

Posted on March 15, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve

https://www.medpagetoday.com/pulmonology/smoking/71778 The FDA has issued an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM) to explore lowering nicotine levels in combustible cigarettes to non-addictive levels, FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, MD, announced Thursday. “This new regulatory step advances a comprehensive policy framework that we believe could help avoid millions of tobacco-related deaths across the country,” Gottlieb explained in […]

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Hi I’m Dr. Mark Isben and I’m speaking up for CPP’s!

Posted on March 14, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve

Dr. Isben’s CPP patient has a failed back surgery and having uncontrollable huge amounts of pain. She’s been on opioids for over 11 years, and now her doctors are FORCE TAPERING her. She has been ABANDONED by the MEDICAL COMMUNITIES! We must UNITE to fight against these

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VA whistleblower exposes improper claim rejections

Posted on March 14, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve

   

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The real cause of the opioid epidemic: the government

Posted on March 14, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve

www.kevinmd.com/blog/2018/03/real-cause-opioid-epidemic-government.html The patient is a forty-two-year-old male who works in the auto manufacturing arena. He takes one step to his left, he turns and lifts a seventy-five-pound piece of metal from a moving conveyor belt. He turns back and takes one step to his right to put the metal on his table. He tightens three […]

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75 percent of all opioid misuse starts with people using medication that wasn’t prescribed for them

Posted on March 14, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve

Opioid Addiction Is a Huge Problem, but Pain Prescriptions Are Not the Cause https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/mind-guest-blog/opioid-addiction-is-a-huge-problem-but-pain-prescriptions-are-not-the-cause/ Cracking down on highly effective pain medications will make patients suffer for no good reason Both the FDA and the CDC have recently taken steps to address an epidemic of opioid overdose and addiction, which is now killing some 29,000 Americans […]

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How to File a Health Care Discrimination Complaint under Section 1557

Posted on March 14, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve

http://familiesusa.org/blog/2016/06/how-file-health-care-discrimination-complaint-under-section-1557 In May, the Obama administration released new regulations that prohibit discrimination by health plans, health facilities, and health care programs. The rules implement Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, and build upon existing civil rights law. Our previous blog describes how this section of the ACA protects people from discrimination on the basis […]

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Opioid Bills Would Up Feds’ Control Over Quotas, Imports

Posted on March 13, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve

https://www.law360.com/lifesciences/articles/1021311/opioid-bills-would-up-feds-control-over-quotas-imports Law360 (March 13, 2018, 7:55 PM EDT) — Federal lawmakers this week introduced bills to tackle the national opioid crisis, with a bipartisan group of senators pushing to give the Drug Enforcement Administration more control over manufacturing quotas and a Democratic congressman looking to give the U.S. Food and Drug Administration more power to […]

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This is how Indiana’s judicial system works… no good deed goes unpunished ?

Posted on March 13, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve

http://www.whas11.com/article/news/local/indiana/founder-of-new-albany-halfway-house-sentenced-to-30-years-in-prison/417-528013539 Founder of New Albany halfway house sentenced to 30 years in prison Lisa Livingston pleaded guilty to drug charges she committed five years ago. It was a crime that led her to open The Breakaway in New Albany.   PAOLI, Ind. (WHAS11) – Holding her daughter close and feeling positive, Lisa Livingston walked into […]

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