PHARMACIST STEVE

Vitamin D Deficiency May Boost COVID-19 Risk https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/936928 People who are deficient in vitamin D may be at higher risk of contracting the novel coronavirus than those with sufficient levels, according to the results of a new retrospective study from Illinois. Individuals with untreated vitamin D deficiency were nearly twice as likely to test positive […]

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‘Very promising’: UK’s first full heroin-prescribing scheme extended after reductions in crime and homelessness https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/heroin-prescription-treatment-middlesbrough-hat-results-crime-homelessness-drugs-a9680551.html ‘Prison, increased sentencing, police crackdowns and all other efforts to break that cycle have failed,’ says police and crime commissioner The UK’s first fully-fledged scheme to provide heroin users with a safe and legal supply of the drug has been […]

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Employee Fatally Stabbed At Wicker Park Walgreens https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2020/09/06/breaking-employee-fatally-stabbed-at-wicker-park-walgreens/ CHICAGO (CBS) — A worker at a Walgreens in Wicker Park was stabbed and killed during daylight business hours Sunday. The 32-year-old woman was working at the Walgreens at 1372 N. Milwaukee Ave. around 9:30 a.m., when she was approached by an unknown person with a knife, police […]

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America’s Book of Secrets: Special Edition S 1 E 4  https://play.history.com/shows/americas-book-of-secrets-special-edition The Power of Money 1h 23m | 2020 | TV-PG | CC Reveals not only the underground world of America’s wealthiest citizens and the depths at which their power and influence take root, but the power and influence that money and the promise of […]

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The only thing I agree with this pharmacist is that no one can force a pharmacist to fill a prescription… but we have a very serious surplus of pharmacists and if an employer doesn’t agree with how their employee pharmacist is exercising – or abusing – their “clinical decisions”  all the chains have hard drives […]

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FBI raids Pennsylvania nursing home where hundreds caught coronavirus, dozens died https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fbi-raids-pennsylvania-nursing-home-where-hundreds-caught-coronavirus-dozens-n1239256 Federal and state investigators raided a Pennsylvania nursing home Thursday where hundreds of residents and staff members tested positive for coronavirus and dozens have died, authorities said. Investigators from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the state attorney general’s office and other agencies executed […]

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Characteristics of Drug Overdose Deaths Involving Opioids and Stimulants — 24 States and the District of Columbia, January–June 2019 https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6935a1.htm Summary What is already known about this topic? After decreasing from 2017 to 2018, provisional data indicate that drug overdose deaths increased in 2019, driven by opioid-involved and stimulant-involved overdose deaths. What is added by […]

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Looks like the “powers to be” believe that very very many people suffering from chronic pain – over the this year and next – will be cut off their medically necessary pain medications, die from under/untreated pain compromising their underlying comorbidity issues or just chose a “death of desperation ” (Suicide).  Since our Founding Fathers […]

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I am not sure about this… color me skeptical… I do know that “they” are experiencing with some different ways of creating vaccines than what has been done in the past.  I am just sharing this.

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