PHARMACIST STEVE

We Need New Laws To Protect People in Pain https://reason.com/2023/02/14/we-need-new-laws-to-protect-people-in-pain/ The CDC’s revised prescribing guidelines retain an anti-opioid bias and do nothing to reverse the harmful policies inspired by the 2016 version. “I hope I will remain alive for 2023 to see changes in pain control,” a woman I’ll call Nancy H. says in a […]

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I shared this post a couple of days ago Watch your back    We now know  that since 2016 with the CDC guidelines there has been a concerted effort by the DEA/DOJ to reduce the number of  opiates being prescribed. Here is a old graphic I dug up from the library that I have accumulated since […]

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Regulators May Face Retaliation As They Protect Patients From Harm https://www.change.org/p/stop-forcing-mail-order-pharmacy/u/31308504 Boards of Pharmacy across the United States risk it all to protect patients as they move forward to regulate mail order pharmacies. The fear we feel as advocating to ensure that patients have safe access to medications may be similar to the fear that […]

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UnitedHealthcare Tried to Deny Coverage to a Chronically Ill Patient. He Fought Back, Exposing the Insurer’s Inner Workings. https://www.propublica.org/article/unitedhealth-healthcare-insurance-denial-ulcerative-colitis After a college student finally found a treatment that worked, the insurance giant decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims. ProPublica is […]

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Ivy League Prof Promotes ‘Mass Suicide’ to Solve Population Issues https://www.toddstarnes.com/education/ivy-league-prof-promotes-mass-suicide-to-solve-population-issues/ A Yale professor suggested Japan’s elderly population should participate in a “mass suicide” for the sake of the younger generations in the country. Yusuke Narita, who teaches economics, advocated for euthanizing Japan’s elderly in an interview with the New York Times. “A Yale economics […]

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this graphic I dug out of my graphic library on my computer and it has a date of 2014 on it. Last year it is claimed that 110,000 OD’s from ALL DRUGS, which included some 70K-80K OD’s involved illegal fentanyl.  That number of “dead bodies” from drug OD’s is abt TWICE the number of our […]

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Brussels Terror Attack Victim Euthanized at Age 23 https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/982984 Performing euthanasia for “mental suffering that cannot be alleviated” is still considered an extraordinary measure. Indeed, fewer than 2% of the requests for euthanasia fall within that category, and few such requests are made by young patients. There is no doubt that people will talk about […]

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It has been reported that inflation over the last TWO YEARS has increased the average expenditures of a family by over $400/wk… Many small restaurants are still trying to recover from all the business shutdowns during the pandemic and increased operational costs because of inflation.  This new IRS mandate is imposing on small restaurant owners […]

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