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Help us help you!– National reporter seeking Oregon Medicaid Patients with Back/Neck Pain Who Were Harmed by Forced Tapering from 2015 – Present. We, the founders of the Oregon Pain Action Group, are assisting a nationally-recognized journalist who has covered our issues and is hoping to speak with individuals who experienced harm due to forced […]

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British Medical Journal Blows Lid On Pfizer and Facebook https://peckford42.wordpress.com/2021/12/22/british-medical-journal-blows-lid-on-pfizer-and-facebook/ Covid-19: Researcher blows the whistle on data integrity issues in Pfizer’s vaccine trial Open letter from The BMJ to Mark Zuckerberg Dear Mark Zuckerberg, We are Fiona Godlee and Kamran Abbasi, editors of The BMJ, one of the world’s oldest and most influential general medical journals. […]

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Harmful effects of UNTREATED PAIN I can’t count the number of times that I have heard from chronic pain pts that their prescriber is reducing their dose or eliminating their dose all together. Or the prescriber tells the pt that they must or must not do something because it is “the law ” when in […]

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Spinal Cord Stimulators An Analysis of the Adverse Events Reported to the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration https://journals.lww.com/journalpatientsafety/abstract/9000/spinal_cord_stimulators__an_analysis_of_the.98907.aspx Abstract Background Spinal cord stimulators are used to treat intractable pain. Placebo-controlled trials of spinal cord stimulators typically involve short-term treatment and follow-up, so long-term safety and efficacy are unclear. Aim The aim of the study was to […]

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I have been trying to advocate for the chronic pain community for abt 10 yrs.. The community seems to either be functioning under Eistein’s definition of insanity or a very bad “ground hog day” scenario There has been too many years between now and Biochemistry class for me. Today, I tend to rely on observations […]

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I am no attorney but in my short research,  suggest that: Definition of theft:1a : the act of stealing specifically : the felonious taking and removing of personal property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it Depending on the state or country… anyone involved in the theft of 10 million could be charged […]

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I have spent some time today researching the buzz behind this new “Mark Cuban’s Cost Plus Pharmacy”. And while I love Shark Tank and nothing makes me happier than cutting out the vampires that are pharmacy middlemen (PBMs), I feel there is an elephant in the room that is not being mentioned in any of […]

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Meta Platforms (FB) shares are trading (26%) lower after the company reported worse-than-expected Q4 EPS results and issued guidance. SUCKERBBERG is not going to get any sympathy from me… after his “opinionated ” FACT CHECKERS  – took a untold number of complaints from Richard Mark and his harem/tribe of minions falsely reported my blog as […]

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Today we advocated for a 9 year old boy named Tony. Tony suffers from BLS ,chronic pancreatitis, and severe low back pain from cancer related problems. “Today was a win for American Pain and Disability Foundation’s team as they pulled together to advocate for kids who suffer in chronic intractable pain,” said Bob Sheerin. Bob […]

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Next Tuesday, the Colorado Pharmacists Society is holding a board meeting and will be discussing burnout and workplace issues! They are inviting pharmacists to attend and to share our perspectives. I’m thinking we have their support

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