DOJ Considers Opioid Use Disorder an ADA Covered Disability and Pursues Claims Against a Provider for Refusing Medical Services to Opioid Users

Posted on April 7, 2025 by Pharmaciststeve

According to this article, Selma Medical had a policy to not prescribe narcotic controlled substances to any pts. This was SIX YEARS ago, why has there not been a lot of lawsuits against practitioners that refuse/decline to treat pts whose health issues require the use of  opioids? DOJ Considers Opioid Use Disorder an ADA Covered […]

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Don’t let the facts get in the way and interfere with your agenda

Posted on April 6, 2025 by Pharmaciststeve

I asked www.perplexity.ai the following fairly (IMO) complex question. It looked at 58 different sources to come up with this answer/explanation.  It has been several years since the DEA has published what they were spending to fight the war on drugs. Recent estimates are that it is 120 – 140 million/yr. I have read recently […]

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Once Again, NO ONE is above the law – except those who are in charge of enforcing such laws

Posted on April 5, 2025 by Pharmaciststeve

Please read Mark’s letter below.. Mark reached out to me some 8-9 yrs ago as the MT medical board was starting to “go after him.” As I understand it, one or more large practices in Maine have decided that all pain pts will be treated with Buprenorphine for pain management. In Reading the Maine’s Pain […]

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War on Doctors: Tricks Used in Prosecutions

Posted on April 5, 2025 by Pharmaciststeve

War on Doctors: Tricks Used in Prosecutions https://aapsonline.org/war-on-doctors-tricks-used-in-prosecutions/ This is a very long article about how our federal judicial system functions in getting any “targeted prescriber” convicted. To boil down their basic tactics… they raid and shut down a prescriber’s practice and confiscate all the prescriber’s assets under our Civil Asset Confiscation law. This leaves […]

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Employee shot and killed at Walgreens in Madera identified

Posted on April 1, 2025 by Pharmaciststeve

MADERA, Calif. (KFSN) — The employee who was shot and killed at a Walgreens in Madera on Monday has been identified as Erick Velasquez. Police say the shooting happened at the location on Cleveland and Schnoor just after 9:30 pm. EDITOR’S NOTE: The video above is from a previous broadcast and will be updated. When […]

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When are disabled people going to get a DAY OF VISIBILITY? Where is the equity?

Posted on March 31, 2025 by Pharmaciststeve

Today is Transgender Day of Visibility: Honoring Trans Heroes and Sharing Stories of Resilience https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/transgender-day-of-visibility-honoring-trans-heroes-and-sharing-stories-of-resilience According to this: Approximately 1.6 million people in the United States identify as transgender, representing around 0.6% of the population aged 13 and older. This includes about 1.3 million adults (0.5% of the adult population) and 300,000 adolescents aged 13 […]

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Have you ever been ASKED?

Posted on March 30, 2025 by Pharmaciststeve

Have you ever been asked by your practitioners and/or a staff member? Have you ever considered harming yourself? In all the years that I have been doing my blog, I now notice that the number of ESTIMATED suicide and attempted suicides published by the CDC has remained unchanged. 2012 when I started my blog, and […]

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Read this and weep – AGs and National Opioid Agreement – nicely put CPs OUT IN THE COLD

Posted on March 23, 2025 by Pharmaciststeve

If the opioid settlement agreements result in shortages of prescription opioids for patients with legitimate medical needs, those patients may face significant challenges in pursuing legal recourse against the participants in the agreement. Here are key considerations: 1. Legal Protections for Settlement Participants The settlement agreements were designed to resolve litigation and include provisions that […]

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US Government Sues Pharmacy Chains CVS and Walgreens for Their Alleged Role in the Opioid Epidemic AGAIN

Posted on March 22, 2025 by Pharmaciststeve

I find it interesting that in this article this statement – As for Walgreens, recent litigation revealed that the pharmacy used an “honor system” rather than conducting regular audits of pharmacists’ prescribing patterns Pharmacists do not have prescriptive authority and has neither the training nor facilities to do an in-person exam, but make some sort […]

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As the Trump Admin close more and more of our borders restricting the flow of illegal Fentanyl Consequences?

Posted on March 20, 2025 by Pharmaciststeve

The Deadly Cost of Drug Busts: How Law Enforcement Fuels the Overdose Crisis https://www.cato.org/blog/deadly-cost-drug-busts-how-law-enforcement-fuels-overdose-crisis Two years ago, I reported on a study published in the American Journal of Public Health that examined data from Marion County, Indiana, covering the period from January 1, 2020, to December 31, 2021, to determine whether changes in the number […]

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