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Posted on April 10, 2022 by Pharmaciststeve

https://www.acsh.org/news/2022/03/01/true-story-morphine-milligram-equivalents-mme-16154 The True Story of Morphine Milligram Equivalents (MME) By Chuck Dinerstein, MD, MBA — March 1, 2022 They are the foundation of the CDC’s 2016 opioid guidelines, resulting in legislation that limits opioid prescribing in 36 states. Morphine milligram equivalents, or MMEs, are used to set arbitrary prescribing limits for opioids by physicians, since […]

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Many boards of pharmacy are putting out surveys, complaint forms and such in order to have the basis to investigate and yet, we pharmacists are refusing to fill those reports

Posted on April 9, 2022 by Pharmaciststeve

Bled Tanoe, PharmD, Bled Tanoe, PharmD, • Following Founder at #PizzaIsNotWorking 1w • Edited • 1 week ago Dear Pharmacists, please help them help you : I have been pretty about the need to fight intimidation and retaliation from employers or even the fear of pharmacy entities . There is a huge demand of such […]

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HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra : Americans are entitled to receive healthcare services

Posted on April 7, 2022 by Pharmaciststeve

HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra : Americans are entitled to receive healthcare services https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-hhs-becerra-suggests-support-taxpayer-funded-gender-altering-procedures-children “Well, Americans are entitled to receive healthcare services. They are entitled to receive any of the case you just mentioned,” Becerra responded. Later in the exchange, Boebert asked Becerra about a document suggesting removing children from homes is “on the table” if […]

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A Victory for “Off-Label” Prescription Drug Coverage

Posted on April 7, 2022 by Pharmaciststeve

A Victory for “Off-Label” Prescription Drug Coverage https://medicareadvocacy.org/a-victory-for-off-label-prescription-drug-coverage/ On February 11, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit reversed a lower-court decision and found that Medicare must provide coverage for a beneficiary’s off-label use of a medication in Dobson v. Secretary of Health & Human Services, No. 20-11996, 2022 WL 424813 (11th […]

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Pushed to Their Limits, 1 in 5 Physicians Intends to Leave Practice

Posted on April 7, 2022 by Pharmaciststeve

Pushed to Their Limits, 1 in 5 Physicians Intends to Leave Practice https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2790791 On the same day in March 2020 that President Donald Trump declared the COVID-19 pandemic a national emergency, researchers at the Larry A. Green Center in Virginia launched an ongoing survey of COVID-19’s effects on primary care practices. Over the past 2 […]

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Primer on America United International, a human rights and judicial accountability campaign.

Posted on April 6, 2022 by Pharmaciststeve

The Law Project If you are not familiar with America United International (AUI) or want to introduce the campaign to someone else, this short video may be just enough of a motivator to learn more. AUI launched on October 25, 2021 in response to America’s well-documented failure to effectively redress deliberate violations of rights imposed […]

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Sugar substitutes may interfere with liver’s ability to detoxify, researchers say

Posted on April 6, 2022 by Pharmaciststeve

Sugar substitutes may interfere with liver’s ability to detoxify, researchers say https://www.foxnews.com/health/sugar-substitutes-interfere-liver-ability-detoxify ‘With an estimated 40% of Americans regularly consuming non-nutritive sweeteners, it’s important to understand how they affect the body’ Two sugar substitutes, also known as non-nutritive sweeteners, may disrupt the function of a protein that plays an important role in detoxifying the liver […]

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Pain Warriors , our feature documentary film on the epidemic of Chronic Pain is going strong on Amazon Prime and Tubi, for FREE

Posted on April 6, 2022 by Pharmaciststeve

Dear Pain Warriors , our feature documentary film on the epidemic of Chronic Pain is going strong on Amazon Prime and Tubi, for FREE . We have 8 stars on IMDB , the international data base of movies. Our goal is to get it seen by doctors ,nurses , healthcare providers and decision makers . […]

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FL Pharmacist: it’s my clinical opinion you are on too much medication- l am not comfortable filling this prescription !

Posted on April 6, 2022 by Pharmaciststeve

Perhaps you can help with this relatively new practice of pharmacists in FL.  It just started occurring over the last month or so, where a patient who has been going to the same pharmacy for years, suddenly out of nowhere and without reason, the pharmacist is stating, “l am not comfortable filling this prescription”. Another […]

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Evidence for Pharmacogenetic Testing in Patients With Treatment-Resistant Depression

Posted on April 6, 2022 by Pharmaciststeve

Evidence for Pharmacogenetic Testing in Patients With Treatment-Resistant Depression https://www.uspharmacist.com/article/evidence-for-pharmacogenetic-testing-in-patients-with-treatmentresistant-depression Toronto—Pharmacogenetic testing is increasingly a game-changer when it comes to selecting medications for a range of conditions. In fact, a new Canadian study suggests that it was associated with an 89% increase in remission rates compared with treatment-as-usual (TAU) in patients with treatment-resistant depression (TRD). […]

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