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https://www.katv.com/community/7-on-your-side/pain-relief-out-of-reach HOT SPRINGS (KATV) — Battling the opioid epidemic has caused some unintended casualties: chronic pain sufferers. KATV traveled to Hot Springs to visit with a man who says he and his neighbors need help. Reverend Dan Ash has lived with chronic pain since 1980 when he was in a bad car accident. The 64-year-old […]

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Pill Mills and the Opioid Epidemic If you are or were a pharmacist or pharmacy manager for any of the chain pharmacies and you have information about inappropriate or fraudulent dispensing policies, please call us at 866-401-5971 or get started online to learn more about your potential rights. https://www.baronandbudd.com/whistleblower/pill-mills The nation is currently experiencing a […]

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You Don’t Have to Boycott CVS The dispute over birth control has everything to do with corporate profits and little to do with health care. www.slate.com/technology/2019/08/boycott-cvs-womens-health-corporate-profits.html Somehow this week, CVS Caremark’s renegotiation with Pill Club, a mail-to-order birth control delivery service, ballooned into a feminist rights issue, with #CVSDeniesCare and #BoycottCVS trending on Twitter. But […]

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The FBI is probing the pot industry, but not for the reason you might expect https://www.foxbusiness.com/industrials/fbi-probing-pot-industry-reason Could public corruption be threatening the state-legal marijuana industry? FBI officials said in a recent podcast that state licenses required to grow and sell marijuana open the possibility of public officials becoming susceptible to bribes in exchange for those […]

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William R. Bauer, MD, 82, a neurologist in Port Clinton, OH with over 50 years of experience was indicted www.doctorsofcourage.org/william-r-bauer-md/ William R. Bauer, MD, 82, a neurologist in Port Clinton, OH with over 50 years of experience was indicted on 200 counts of distribution of controlled substances (fentanyl, oxycodone, hydrocodone, morphine, and other drugs) and […]

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Opinion: Aetna’s behavior is unacceptable www.salinapost.com/2019/08/23/opinion-aetnas-behavior-is-unacceptable/ In the state of Kansas, the media has quietly reported about issues with Aetna Better Health of Kansas. Aetna BH is a Kansas Medicaid Contractor with a $1 billion a year contract. They serve approximately 100,000 Kansans. Since 7/1/2019, all payments have ceased for many local providers. This includes […]

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Consumers like their pharmacies, but CVS trails rivals in survey https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/consumers-like-their-pharmacies-but-cvs-trails-rivals-in-survey/561314/ Dive Brief: As disruptors like Amazon threaten to upend the business, the pharmacy industry still yields high levels of customer satisfaction in both brick-and-mortar and mail order segments, according to a J.D. Power survey. Almost nine out of ten consumers prefer face-to-face interaction with their […]

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DEA warns of national methamphetamine comeback https://www.abc12.com/content/news/557138522.html As the opioid epidemic swells in the United States, there’s another deadly drug that’s making a comeback. “We’re talking super labs,” said former Drug Enforcement Administration Agent Kevin Hartmann. “Super labs that can produce multi hundred kilograms of methamphetamine.” In 2005, Congress passed the Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act […]

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New Survey Data Confirm That Opioid Deaths Do Not Correlate With Pain Pill Abuse or Addiction Rates www.reason.com/2019/08/21/new-survey-data-confirm-that-opioid-deaths-do-not-correlate-with-pain-pill-abuse-or-addiction-rates/#comment-7904072 New data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) provide further evidence to support a counterintuitive conclusion: The dramatic increase in deaths involving prescription analgesics since 2000 cannot be explained by a dramatic increase […]

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