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In the clip, a man identifying himself as a business owner claimed that a Jacksonville employee named Melinda Power had demanded that military flags be removed. In addition, the unnamed business owner claimed Power told a combat veteran customer he had done “nothing” for the country. Video shared by a local news outlet included an […]

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 Amberly Lago survived a devastating motorcycle accident and endured 34 surgeries and extreme chronic pain. She joins Megyn Kelly TODAY to share her story, as recounted in her book “True Grit and Grace: Turning Tragedy Into Triumph.” She says her leg was “completely shattered” and explains why she chose not to have it amputated.

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https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/04/how-france-reduced-heroin-overdoses-by-79-in-four-years/558023/ In the 1980s, France went through a heroin epidemic in which hundreds of thousands became addicted. Mohamed Mechmache, a community activist, described the scene in the poor banlieues back then: “To begin with, they would disappear to shoot up. But after a bit we’d see them all over the place, in the stairwells and […]

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http://theweek.com/speedreads/767739/dea-making-raids-look-like-robberies–really-dangerous-consequences-innocent-people The Drug Enforcement Administration likes to use something called a “sneak-and-peek warrant,” a search warrant that allows agents to enter and search a property without notifying the owner as a normal warrant would require. Officers operating on a sneak-and-peek (officially, a Delayed Notice Warrant) typically aren’t allowed to take any evidence they find on-site […]

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https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2015/09/when-doctors-pass-the-buck-the-ugly-side-of-a-shift-work-mentality.html “I’m just the night doc,” you said. You said it with emphasis as if that explained everything and dismissed your incompetence, your lack of compassion, your failure to care. Unfortunately my sister was “just the patient,” who lay suffering hours before her death and the RN was “just the nurse” withholding the morphine that […]

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http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2018/04/secret_drug_raid_by_feds_backf.html Shortly after 9 a.m. on a Saturday in December, two men showed up at the office of a Public Storage warehouse in Southeast Portland and asked about renting space. On-site manager Shawn Riley led them to an empty unit and unlocked it. The pair followed him in, then suddenly drew large silver handguns. One […]

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http://www.dispatch.com/news/20180415/three-cvs-actions-raise-concerns-for-some-pharmacies-consumers First, CVS set up a website for consumers to compare drug prices. But the site gave clear preference to CVS pharmacies, automatically putting them at the top of the comparison list. That occurred despite a “firewall” that’s legally required between the drugstore chain and CVS Caremark, the drug giant’s pharmacy benefit manager that runs […]

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https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2018/4/13/prominent-pain-doctor-faces-hundreds-of-lawsuits Imagine spending your retirement defending yourself against hundreds of lawsuits in courthouses around the country – all of them alleging that you played a key role in starting the opioid crisis and that you were indirectly responsible for thousands of overdose deaths. “It is mind boggling to me and its frightening, actually. I don’t […]

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A now former Palm Beach County Sheriff’s deputy was caught on home surveillance video stealing prescription drugs from a West Boynton Beach home 90 minutes after paramedics took the dying 85-year-old homeowner to the hospital.   Former deputy accused of stealing pills pleads guilty to lesser charges http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/palm-beach/fl-pn-deputy-steal-pills-plea-deal-20180413-story.html A former Palm Beach County Sheriff’s deputy […]

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http://www.thv11.com/article/news/health/opioids/saving-a-generation/us-surgeon-general-visits-arkansas-to-encourage-everyone-to-carry-narcan/91-537659703 There’s not one solution to tackling the opioid addiction crisis. U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams was in Little Rock to talk about what he’s doing to fight it. “We have a person dying every 12.5 minutes from an opioid overdose,” said Dr. Adams. Before we fight the crisis, Dr. Adams wants us to […]

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