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I count EIGHT TIMES that the word FENTANYL is mentioned in this pretty short press release by the DEA. AND NOT ONCE do they state that they are talking about ILLEGAL/ILLICIT Fentanyl analogs. That could  contain not only an illegal Fentanyl analog but could also contain various other drugs, a couple of veterinarian meds, illegal […]

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Maybe this explains why the CVS Health net profits are substantially increasing each year when other pharmacies are having trouble just paying their bills. Rite Aid just declared their last bankruptcy and closing their last 1000 stores. Walgreen is selling the company to some financial group. The West Virginia Office of the Insurance Commissioner (OIC) […]

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Is PAM BONDI/DOJ/DEA AGENDA diametrical opposed to Sec Kennedy’s MAHA (Make American Healthy Again) agenda?  Some 25%-30% of our population has had their QOL continuing deterioration over the last decade. How can that population have any chance of getting healthy again and optimized their QOL, if the intensity of their chronic pain has been increasing […]

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OpenEvidence AI scores 100% on USMLE as company launches free explanation model for medical students https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/ai-and-machine-learning/openevidence-ai-scores-100-usmle-company-offers-free-explanation-model Artificial intelligence startup OpenEvidence says its AI model has scored a perfect 100% on the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE), raising the bar on the proficiency of AI models to interpret medical information. The company spent the last […]

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It is the FEDERAL LAW, if a patented Rx med is unavailable or in short supply, then compounding pharmacy can compound the Rx med as long as the med is unavailable or there is a shortage. The shortage of the GLP-1 injectables have been readily available for months. From what I have read, the FDA […]

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Personally, I always thought of Fexeril as a fairly “crappy” med.  One time we were at our FL beach condo and I had stressed or pulled a muscle and I went to a local “doc in a box” and he gave me #15 of Flexeril 10 mg, could not persuade him to give me a […]

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Oh please…. many of u may have read, this past Wednesday i had a stent placed in my duodenum due to overuse of aspirin as im a pain patient, denied pain medication. Well after they installed it, i was taken to recovery where i was in literal agony an throwing up blood…. LOTS of blood. […]

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When I opened my independent pharmacy in 1776, I had worked for a regional chain pharmacy and after working for them for ~ 3 yrs, I was promoted to pharmacy/store manager. I was told that I was the youngest manager in their 100+ yr history.  One+ year later, there was some changes at the chain […]

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can you compare the similarities and differences between the way that the DOJ/DEA extract money from businesses selling a legal product and the stories that I have heard about bullies or mafia would use threats to extract money out of the owners of store front businesses in order to keep their stores from being damaged? […]

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This simple math would strongly suggest that the war on drugs has not basis in MATH. It is pretty common knowledge that addiction – regardless of what a person is demonstrating addictive behavior about – There is typically stated that addiction has a substantially underlying mental health issues. The Graph below that there is abt […]

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