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FDA Public Meeting for Patient-Focused Drug Development on Chronic Pain https://www.eventbrite.com/e/public-meeting-for-patient-focused-drug-development-on-chronic-pain-registration-44555070415 On July 9, 2018, FDA is hosting a public meeting on Patient-Focused Drug Development for Chronic Pain. FDA is interested in hearing patients’ perspectives on chronic pain, views on treatment approaches, and challenges or barriers to accessing treatments for chronic pain. FDA is particularly […]

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“CVS Pharmacy is currently forcing its pharmacy employees, both pharmacists and technicians, to sign off on a learning module that forces them to comply with the company’s limited and dangerous computer downtime procedures. These downtime procedures (RxConnect Offline) include the filling of prescriptions with limited patient history data and no failsafes in place to prevent […]

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About 2.5 weeks ago… my sciatic nerve decided to “march to a different drummer”. By now, I have went thru two weeks of  high dose & decreasing Prednisone without much change in my dramatically elevated pain level.  On the “second day”, I could not get in to see any of the seven prescribers in PCP […]

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http://www.barrowjournal.com/archives/12787-Buffington-Drug-laws-just-clogging-up-courts.html America’s war on drugs has been a catastrophic failure. Look at the arrest and incident reports in this week’s newspaper to see just how little impact the current legal system has had on illegal drug use and abuse. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. There’s a massive amount of abuse of legal […]

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