PHARMACIST STEVE

Personally, I always thought of Fexeril as a fairly “crappy” med.  One time we were at our FL beach condo and I had stressed or pulled a muscle and I went to a local “doc in a box” and he gave me #15 of Flexeril 10 mg, could not persuade him to give me a […]

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Oh please…. many of u may have read, this past Wednesday i had a stent placed in my duodenum due to overuse of aspirin as im a pain patient, denied pain medication. Well after they installed it, i was taken to recovery where i was in literal agony an throwing up blood…. LOTS of blood. […]

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When I opened my independent pharmacy in 1776, I had worked for a regional chain pharmacy and after working for them for ~ 3 yrs, I was promoted to pharmacy/store manager. I was told that I was the youngest manager in their 100+ yr history.  One+ year later, there was some changes at the chain […]

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can you compare the similarities and differences between the way that the DOJ/DEA extract money from businesses selling a legal product and the stories that I have heard about bullies or mafia would use threats to extract money out of the owners of store front businesses in order to keep their stores from being damaged? […]

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This simple math would strongly suggest that the war on drugs has not basis in MATH. It is pretty common knowledge that addiction – regardless of what a person is demonstrating addictive behavior about – There is typically stated that addiction has a substantially underlying mental health issues. The Graph below that there is abt […]

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Notice in the DEA notice I pulled off the web. Notice that they LABELED the CASH as ILLICIT but all the items that are identified as “NARCOTICS”. I am not sure what is lying on the table but all narcotics are a controlled substances, but not all controlled substances are narcotics. Notice those bags of […]

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There is a good video on the hyperlink below.  The questions has to be asked, if ~40 states can make Marijuana legal – when it is illegal at the federal level designated as a Category C-1 and the DOJ/DEA have pretty much left those states alone.  First state to legalize medical marijuana: California, 1996 First […]

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Just think about it! Kennedy’s MAHA is being diametrically opposed by the DEA/DOJ’s agenda. How many chronic pain pts get a “good nights sleep”? People who do not have a night of “restorative sleep” are not the healthiest people in our society!  All those chronic painers – with under/untreated pain, often are thrown into Addison’s […]

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Picture this: The FDA has approved a C-III med for POST SURGICAL PAIN, but farther down the article the company is talking about using it to treat high acuity chronic health issues The company noted that it hopes to expand ketamine development into conditions such as Parkinson’s disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, depression, and complex regional […]

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I am current working with a young woman/Mother who is a intractable chronic pain pt and her pain doc without any discussion reduced her opioid OF TEN YEARS from 15 mg QID to 5 mg BID and put a her on a Buprenorphine Transdermal Patch which threw her into a SEVERE COLD TURKEY WITHDRAWAL! Her blood […]

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