PHARMACIST STEVE

www.nationalpainreport.com/do-we-need-to-educate-the-professionals-8836437.html Some professionals claim to be “experts”; however, few are experts in the entire scope of their chosen field of study. Most likely they will end up being “specialists” in certain subsets of their profession. Either because they have become interested in one or more subsets, or that is where there is a need to […]

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www.mgretailer.com/dea-says-it-wont-prohibit-cannabis-stems-seeds-for-product-use-sale/ WASHINGTON D.C. –The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) on May 22 issued an internal directive that apparently acknowledges some cannabis products are not currently prohibited under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) and that specific parts of cannabis plants are not prohibited for use under current policy. According to the directive, the DEA’s enforcement policy is […]

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http://www.dailyitem.com/news/local_news/dea-foreign-fentanyl-a-greater-risk-that-diverted-pills/article_cf376e6e-da2b-577f-b8fa-a6ce4abcf030.html Fentanyl manufactured in foreign countries and smuggled into the U.S. poses the greater risk compared to the medication illegally diverted by patients and doctors, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration. The synthetic opioid is up to 50 times more potent than heroin and 100 times that of morphine, the DEA says. It’s increasingly cut […]

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Mail-order pharmacy system delays meds for some patients http://www.dispatch.com/news/20180603/mail-order-pharmacy-system-delays-meds-for-some-patients Imagine the terror of being diagnosed with cancer. Your doctor writes a prescription that you pray will save your life. You go to the hospital or oncology clinic’s in-house pharmacy. The medicine is right there on the shelf, but you’re told the only way your insurance […]

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http://www.record-courier.com/news/20180603/pharmacist-says-cvs-strong-arms-cancer-drug-business Josh Cox says that CVS will go pretty far in trying to wrest the lucrative business of filling cancer prescriptions away from oncology clinics. The company, which operates a retail pharmacy chain and manages prescription-drug payments for millions of Americans, has long sent unsolicited faxes to cancer doctors, using confidential patient information, in an […]

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This video is not only about the appalling coverage by CBS News but all major news outlets. I could just as easily of named Fox News, the Washington Post or even Andrea McCarren of WUSA Channel 9, Washington DC (another CBS affiliate) who has now blocked me on Tweeter for requesting her assistance in exposing […]

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https://www.acsh.org/news/2017/11/03/grading-president%E2%80%99s-commission-combating-drug-addiction-and-opioid-crisis-12078 A long-awaited report from the President’s Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis, with strategies to combat it, was just issued by The White House. The document is over 130 pages long and consists of 56 recommendations designed to get a handle on what should more accurately be called “the fentanyl crisis.” Some of the […]

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http://www.abc27.com/news/local/harrisburg/emts-get-access-to-safer-opioid-alternative/1211020191 HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) – Susquehanna Township EMS responds to a handful of medical calls every day. First responders are often responding to pain related issues, which has become a difficult condition to treat because of the opioid crisis. Now they have a new pain reliever that’s less harmful than opioids. “What we’re used to […]

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https://reason.com/reasontv/2018/06/01/how-the-government-made-the-opioid-crisi Politicians and journalists often tell a story about greedy pharmaceutical companies that turned doctors into dealers and patients into addicts. And now, we’re told, tens of thousands of Americans are dying of overdoses every year because of government inaction. If this is truly an epidemic, the diagnosis is wrong in a few major ways. […]

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Doctors reduce opioid prescriptions, study finds https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/doctors-reduce-opioid-prescriptions-study-finds Doctors have reduced their prescribing of opioid painkillers for the fifth year in a row, the nation’s largest physician group announced. The American Medical Association found that between 2013 and 2017, the number of opioid prescriptions fell by more than 55 million, a 22.2 percent decrease. Doctors also […]

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