Some People Still Need Opioids

Posted on March 3, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve

Some People Still Need Opioids https://slate.com/technology/2017/08/cutting-down-on-opioids-has-made-life-miserable-for-chronic-pain-patients.html The crackdown on pain medication prescribing is intended to help the addiction crisis—but it’s leaving chronic pain patients in untenable situations. On July 26, Todd Graham, 56, a well-respected rehabilitation specialist in Mishawaka, Indiana, lost his life. Earlier that day, a woman complaining of chronic pain had come to […]

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Walmart: moto “save money, live better” just don’t ask us to fill your controlled meds with us

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CVS Caremark Silver Script: charge of $2,373.56 copay.. Walmart $447.84 CASH PRICE

Posted on March 3, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve

Letter: Prescription plan’s charge higher than Walmart’s https://www.dispatch.com/opinion/20190302/letter-prescription-plans-charge-higher-than-walmarts I am a retiree with the Ohio Public Employees Retirement System. I am a diabetic who needs to take injectable insulin. I am covered by CVS Caremark Silver Script for my prescriptions through OPERS. I ordered 18 vials of Novolin N insulin and was “assessed” a charge […]

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Legal Foundation of Washington

Posted on March 3, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve

https://legalfoundation.org/ About Grants Campaign Endowment Goldmark Connect Invest We Fuel Equal Justice The Legal Foundation of Washington invests in programs and strategies that make our state a fair and just place to live. PrevNext 1 2 3 4 Since 1984, LFW has distributed more than $200 million to Washington’s legal aid community. The Legal Foundation […]

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The practice of medicine has been stolen

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The practice of medicine has been stolen. https://www.physiciansrise.com/ It’s time for physicians to reclaim responsibility for the patient-physician relationship. Third-party payors, government, hospitals, and non-physician staff disrupt the patient-physician relationship, once considered sacred. Productivity demands, shorter appointments, and one-size-fits-all algorithms rob patients of physician time. Political funding schemes limit expansion of graduate medical education. Graduating […]

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Fentanyl-laced cocaine, not heroin, is now the biggest overdose threat in Massachusetts

Posted on March 3, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve

Fentanyl-laced cocaine, not heroin, is now the biggest overdose threat in Massachusetts https://www.masslive.com/news/2019/01/fentanyl-laced-cocaine-not-heroin-is-now-the-biggest-overdose-threat-in-massachusetts.html Overdoses in the state from fentanyl-laced heroin may be on the decline, but the state is increasingly facing a new problem: fentanyl-laced cocaine. According to a report issued in August by the Department of Public Health, the first three months of 2018 […]

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Workers comp doctor provides false information about injured employee

Posted on March 3, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve

https://www.wfla.com/8-on-your-side/investigations/workers-comp-doctor-provides-false-information-about-injured-employee/1760416871 LAKELAND, Fla.(WFLA) – Documents obtained by 8 On Your Side show that a doctor hired by workers comp carrier Travelers Indemnity provided false information on an injured worker’s condition. Neil Eckelberger suffered serious burns as well as neurological psychological and orthopedic injuries when a reactor at Natural Advantage Food Flavorings in Lakeland exploded in […]

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fentanyl — a synthetic opioid — is now killing more Americans than any other drug.

Posted on March 3, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve

DEADLY MYSTERY DRUG THAT SICKENED HUNDREDS HAS BEEN DISCOVERED www.wcluradio.com/deadly-mystery-drug-that-sickened-hundreds-has-been-discovered/ LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A deadly mystery drug sickened hundreds of people in the summer of 2016, ripping a destructive path down Interstate 71 from Cincinnati to Louisville. Many collapsed, struggling to breathe. Doctors sprinted outside emergency rooms to cars, yanking out those left motionless […]

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