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How the NHS won‘t give mother life extending cancer drug https://stockdailydish.com/how-the-nhs-wont-give-mother-life-extending-cancer-drug/ How the NHS won‘t give Bonnie a cancer drug that will extend her life – yet spends millions on treatments that don‘t work Bonnie Fox was denied a vital drug on cost grounds Bonnie Fox is dying. In April 2015 she gave birth to […]

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Durbin, Kennedy Urge DEA To Use Its New Authorities To Lower Opioid Quotas https://www.durbin.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/durbin-kennedy-urge-dea-to-use-its-new-authorities-to-lower-opioid-quotas Letter Follows Recent Bipartisan Law And Amendment Yesterday Directing DEA To More Proactively Prevent Big Pharma’s Excessive Opioid Production WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and John Kennedy (R-LA) today, in a letter to Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Acting Administrator […]

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Texas commissioners: Mail order prescription is more expensive https://www.ncpanet.org/newsroom/qam/2019/12/17/texas-commissioners-mail-order-is-more-expensive Commissioners in Collin County, Texas, had long incentivized their employees to use mail order, and even limited 90-day fills to mail order. After extensive analysis, they found that most prescription drugs were more expensive under mail order, $29.09 more expensive per script. That is before considering […]

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There are fewer suicides related to opioids than previously believed, research says https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/17/health/opioid-overdose-death-suicide-study/index.html Since 1999, significant increases in US suicide rates have paralleled increases in drug overdoses from opioids. Experts have wondered how much the two might be intertwined, estimating that the percent of suicides among opioid overdose deaths to be as high as 20% […]

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DEA Obtusely Uses High School Wrestler‘s Death To Promote Anti-Drug Website https://stockdailydish.com/dea-obtusely-uses-high-school-wrestlers-death-to-promote-anti-drug-website/ a high school wrestler who started taking Oxycodone as a senior. His doctor prescribed it to him after a shoulder injury that ended his wrestling career. At 21, he died from a fentanyl overdose. It is adviced for Yakima wrongful death lawyers for […]

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Michigan sues Walgreens, other drug companies for causing opioid crisis https://www.freep.com/story/news/health/2019/12/17/michigan-walgreens-opioid-drug-companies/2674106001/ The state of Michigan Tuesday filed a lawsuit against drug companies for damages caused by the opioid epidemic. The suit, filed in Wayne County Circuit Court, charges McKesson Corporation, Cardinal Health Inc., AmerisourceBergen Corporation, and Walgreens with creating the opioid epidemic by flooding the market with prescription […]

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My blog is now in its 8th year and it took me five plus years to get ONE MILLION total page views and the second one million page views took only TWO YEARS. Thanks to my many loyal readers. I have learned much from those who have made comments or reached out to me via […]

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U.S. Sues CVS for Fraudulently Billing Medicare, Medicaid for Invalid Prescriptions https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2019/12/17/us/17reuters-cvs-lawsuit.html NEW YORK — CVS Health Corp and its Omnicare unit were sued on Tuesday by the U.S. government, which accused them of fraudulently billing Medicare and other programs for drugs for older and disabled people without valid prescriptions. The Department of Justice joined […]

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  Some are wondering why their PBM/Insurance is creating “preferred medications” for pts with specific health issues.  The only answer is the MIDDLEMEN in the medication distribution system. “EPIGATE” is a fictional term to describe the rapid price increase on EPIPEN (auto injector) used for asthma attacks and acute/severe allergy reactions ( anaphylactic shock ). […]

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