Cruel & Unusual Pain Treatment

Posted on March 7, 2025 by Pharmaciststeve

Cruel & Unusual Pain Treatment Trish Randall @trishrandall312428 Punishing one group for the behavior of another is the height of injustice https://substack.com/@trishrandall312428/p-158606067? America’s drug regulations rest on long-familiar, syllogism-like tendrils: Drugs are dangerous. Users can harm others. Laws target those who hurt people. Even if the drug war is unwinnable, punishing users who get caught […]

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The times they are a changing at a pharmacy that once claimed Where America Shops

Posted on March 6, 2025 by Pharmaciststeve

Walgreens Seals $10 Billion Take-Private Deal With Sycamore https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/walgreens-seals-10-billion-take-private-deal-with-sycamore/ar-AA1ApjdU Walgreens’s almost centurylong run as a public company is coming to an end. The embattled drugstore chain has struck a deal to be taken private by Sycamore Partners in one of the biggest leveraged buyouts in recent memory. Sycamore has agreed to pay $11.45 a share […]

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Alarm Bells are Ringing: Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program Will Fail Without Changes

Posted on March 6, 2025 by Pharmaciststeve

Our next “health crisis” may be on the horizon. CMS is trying to save $$ on our national “medication cost”, which is admirable, but their apparent solution may cause a massive creation of “pharmacy desserts”.  When we opened our independent pharmacy in 1976, about 45,000 pharmacies – abt 80% were independent pharmacies.  I don’t remember […]

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Anti-Obesity Medicines Are Not All Created Equally

Posted on March 6, 2025 by Pharmaciststeve

Anti-Obesity Medicines Are Not All Created Equally https://thetimesweekly.com/2025/03/anti-obesity-medicines-are-not-all-created-equally/ The new FDA-approved weight loss medicines have changed the game for people with obesity, offering millions of people a chance to transform their health, prevent disease, and live longer lives. But as demand for these treatments soars, an illegal industry is growing alongside it. Criminal networks, counterfeiters, […]

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Novo Nordisk unveils DTC pharmacy NovoCare, offers discounted Wegovy

Posted on March 5, 2025 by Pharmaciststeve

Novo Nordisk unveils DTC pharmacy NovoCare, offers discounted Wegovy https://www.mmm-online.com/news/novo-nordisk-dtc-pharmacy-novocare-discounted-wegovy/ The home shipments — which will be fulfilled by CenterWell Pharmacy — include Wegovy injections of 0.25 mg, 0.5 mg, 1 mg, 1.7 mg and 2.4 mg. Novo Nordisk has officially entered the direct-to-consumer (DTC) platform game. The Danish drugmaker unveiled NovoCare Pharmacy on Wednesday […]

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Senior citizens are rattled by news that Medicare telehealth coverage could expire next month

Posted on March 2, 2025 by Pharmaciststeve

Senior citizens are rattled by news that Medicare telehealth coverage could expire next month https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/senior-citizens-medicare-telehealth-coverage-expiring-rcna193487 Advocates say the coverage has bipartisan support, but efforts to make it permanent have been unsuccessful. For Kaye Peterson, 67, the expansion of Medicare telehealth coverage during Covid-19 was a godsend.   Peterson, who has Type 1 diabetes and lives in […]

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Why Reliable Opioid Death Data is Impossible

Posted on March 2, 2025 by Pharmaciststeve

Why Reliable Opioid Death Data is Impossible https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/07/why_reliable_opioid_death_data_is_impossible.html If we’ve learned anything from our national COVID experience, it’s that science is not a collection of fixed, eternal declarations. Tools and terminology useful in the process of discovery can also be instruments of confirmation. A microscope can be a portal to the unexpected, or a prop […]

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Shots Fired!! Two of the most prestigious medical journals just came out fiercely against epidural injections

Posted on March 2, 2025 by Pharmaciststeve

Shots Fired!! Two of the most prestigious medical journals just came out fiercely against epidural injections / RFA. The British Medical Journal just published a “Practice Guideline” paper with these damning statements: “For people living with chronic radicular spine pain, the guideline panel issued strong recommendations against: epidural injection of local anaesthetic, steroids, or their […]

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Your Body, Your Health Care

Posted on March 1, 2025 by Pharmaciststeve

Your Body, Your Health Care https://www.cato.org/events/your-body-your-health-care AVAILABLE APRIL 8TH. Pre-order at retailers now. January 2025 • Published By Cato Institute By Jeffrey A. Singer At a time when individuals feel increasingly disenfranchised by their health care choices, Dr. Jeffrey A. Singer’s groundbreaking new book, Your Body, Your Health Care, offers a compelling vision for a future […]

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Opioids – how forced tapers do more patient harm than just increased pain

Posted on February 28, 2025 by Pharmaciststeve

Opioids – how forced tapers do more patient harm than just increased pain https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/opioids-how-forced-tapers-do-more-patient-harm-than-just-neen-monty-ugrwc Taking away my opioid pain relief is not only medically endorsed torture, it is taking away my ability to access treatment for my severe, late-diagnosed, long-standing disease, CIDP. I have been very sick lately.  Why?  Because I missed my fortnightly IVIG […]

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