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This article is from Aug 2017, and according to this .. their timetable for and contributing factors to opiate epidemic. Once again Congress gets a pass on their passing of the Decade of Pain Law that became law in 1999-2000. That was a significant cause of the creation of “the fifth vital sign” and the […]

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Is Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.) suggesting that opiates should not be prescribed to treat pain and/or all opiate prescribing creates addicts ? Senators Press HHS Chief on Alzheimer’s Drugs, Opioids at Budget Hearing https://www.medpagetoday.com/publichealthpolicy/healthpolicy/103674 WASHINGTON — Alzheimer’s disease treatments, the opioid epidemic, and funding for rural healthcare were all in the spotlight during a Senate […]

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A conversation with Kristen Ogden, patient advocate for Dr. David Bockoff  

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The FBI took her life savings. Now she’s fighting to help others get theirs back https://www.foxnews.com/us/fbi-took-life-savings-now-fighting-help-others-get-back Linda Martin feels ‘misled’ and ‘angry’ after the FBI seized her life savings Linda Martin thought she was being responsible by putting her nest egg in a safe deposit box where she wouldn’t be tempted to touch it.  She […]

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This unit appears to be just a “re-invented” T.E.N.S. unit or SCS.  We stocked T.E.N.S. units when we had our pharmacy and Home Medical Equipment (HME) business… and a T.E.N.S. unit that uses topical electrodes and some sort of gel on the electrodes to transfer the electrical impulses thru the skin in an attempt to […]

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FDA warns pharmacy benefit company for distributing unapproved foreign drugs https://www.raps.org/news-and-articles/news-articles/2023/3/fda-warns-pharmacy-benefit-company-for-distributin The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently warned pharmacy benefit firm ElectRx for substituting prescription drugs ordered by its customers with drugs sourced from foreign pharmacies that have not been approved by the agency.   The company, which contracts with public and private […]

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US sues Rite Aid for allegedly missing ‘red flags’ in unlawful prescriptions   Here is a quote from this article:  Associate attorney general Vanita Gupta said that the pharmacy chain’s prescribing practices had “opened the floodgates for millions of opioid pills and other controlled substances to flow illegally out of Rite Aid’s stores”.  Maybe this […]

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Opioid Settlement Hinders Patients’ Access to a Wide Array of Drugs An agreement between attorneys general and major drug distributors increased scrutiny on medications for A.D.H.D., addiction, anxiety and pain. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/13/us/drug-limits-adhd-depression.html Nearly a year after a sweeping opioid settlement imposed new requirements on the companies that provide medications to pharmacies, patients across the United States […]

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