The PUBLIC FACE of fibromyalgia that few sees ?

Posted on November 24, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve

PLEASE SHARE WOULD LIKE TO GET IT TO Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga…
You need to bring awareness to the world outside those of us who understand your journey, your limitations and pain! Those of us who suffer from intractable/chronic pain day in and day out, 24/7, 365 days a year!

Because of your celebrity, you can reach a huge sector of the population!
This would be instrumental in changing the misconceptions, and false narrative frenzy of that surrounds this community by this, “Opioid Hysteria”!
As you know, intractable pain wreaks Havoc on your body, mind, and soul!

Lady Gaga, many are dying due to suicide! Their pain levels are exceeding what is humanly manageable
without the proper medications!!! Without these tools, (our medications) that give us a sense of relief from the torturous, agonizing, wrenching, excruciating, aching, burning, never ending, incessant, stabbing, unbearable pain even if minimally…

Are we not allowed to assemble of quality in our lives? Of functionality?
Which is what these medications provide!

Lady Gaga, since the implementation of the 2016 guidelines my life has declined 98% and I’m not exaggerating!
I used to be vivacious,
I used to work,
engage in church,
Sports out in the community!

I used to be a special education advocate, advocating for children with autism!
I helped a lot of children receive services that enriched and bettered their lives!
I made a difference Lady Gaga even if just a small sector of individuals!
I made a difference!
Isn’t that what life is about?
About giving back?
Making a difference?
You can make a big difference!
I’m asking that you do this for thy fellow man, that is broken, hurting, whose rights are being violated in every sense of the word!

The American with Disabilities Act is not being followed our very own government is breaking the law and Justice needs to be done!

Media is selling this false narrative equating us to drug addicts!
They are not adhering to their preamble their code of ethics which includes but not limited to being the voice for the voiceless!

A journalist is supposed to be seeking truth and must avoid conflicts of interest whether the conflicts of interest are real or simply perceived! Journalist always must strive for accuracy in everything they do!
Deceiving or misinforming the reader, deliberately or accidentally, is one of the worst sins in journalism!
Factual errors and conflicts of interest erode and cripple Publications credibility as a source of news and opinion. Therefore, a journalist needs to follow a code of ethics to preserve and to build their Publications credibly.
The code of ethics is an ever-evolving reference document with which every staff member should be knowledgeable. The editor of the publication retains the final judgment on all ethical questions, and ultimately, the editor shoulders the consequence of unethical practices.
MAINSTREAM MEDIA IS NOT ADHERING TO ETHICAL JOURNALISM….

So Lady Gaga we are already so compromised and challenged you are in a different Arena so you have no clue probably how desperate, how lonely how isolated so many of us feel! Every day, I get calls from individuals who are on the edge of killing themselves! Every single day! I talked to them and tell him to please hang on justice has to come! Will you help us get Justice or at least awareness Lady Gaga? Pay it forward? Before I have to put another name on my all too overwhelming incredibly extensive suicide due to pain list?

functionality and quality of our life! Without that? Pain is relentless, pain is cruel, it doesn’t discriminate it could happen to you! Anyone out there outside of the chronic pain community Miss just one car accident away, one surgery one illness away potentially from living the rest of their days in disabling, the torturous pain! Literally hell on Earth! We did not ask for this, who would? Yet this is our walk this is our journey! Why, are we being violated and shunned disrespected and ignored

It is getting to be a regular theme here in the chronic pain community to hear of another chronic pain patient killing themselves.
Because they have been abandoned or tapered by their doctors the pain becomes all too overwhelming, all to consuming, depression and the thought of just one more hour, one more day, even one more minute is just to much to bear… I can speak of this because I have been there! Not just once or twice but on many occasions! What has stopped me from doing it? My belief…
This may sound crazy and I don’t care if it does! For the past 10 years, I’ve been having a reoccurring dream! Where God comes to me and tells me to hang in there!
You see Lady Gaga almost now 8 years ago… I was told I only have 3 months left to live! I weighed approximately 87 lbs then and I’m 5′ 7 and 1/2, had a surgically inserted port in my chest receiving intravenous nutrients 12 to 24 hours a day. For 8 + years this. After hearing that news I was stunned, 3 months, 3 months! Wow, that was hard to absorb! Approximately, a week later I found out that my daughter-in-law was pregnant! My first grandbaby was on his way! I told myself that I was not going anywhere. I was going to see my first grandchild. Long story short my beautiful Jeremiah was born. When he was 3 months, I knew he had autism! I told myself I am not going anywhere until I know he receives all the services humanly possible. To make him into the man that God truly intended him to be!
Because early intervention is the key! It makes all the difference in the world! That means I have to advocate for him! Lady Gaga guess what? I can’t do it! My grandson is a statistic of this opioid epidemic/crisis… the collateral damage aspect that no one touches on! Which is going to be exponentially worse than anything that is a curd in our history this will be irreversible and this country will never be the same! Broken families! Destroyed lives! Loss of life! Of livelihood, substandard living due to not being able to work any longer! Social Services will be overwhelmed with children whose parents can no longer take care. The family unit will be destroyed as we know it! The American dream…
that white picket fence will be abolished! And that is just the tip of the iceberg! All because they do not have the medication that once allowed them to work, to raise a family, to engage and interact in society now gone!
I’m asking, actually I’m pleading with you 2 bring awareness I’d love to help you in this endeavor have already reached out to a couple of celebrities trying to incorporate a message
#Ladygaga
#GIVEPAINAVOICE #All4OneAndOne4All
#unitedwestanddividedwefall #suicideDue2Pain

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#Betrayal by our own government

Posted on November 23, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve

 

Reaching out to all my Brothers & Sisters from all branches of the military, please call me if you need to talk to someone who understands the #Betrayal by our own government. We can discuss whatever you like or need to talk about without my forcing my beliefs on you. I only want to help as we know turning to the VA is a death sentence. Respectfully, Robert D. Rose Jr. BSW, Med. USMC Semper Fidelis

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Drinks, Crime and Prohibition

Posted on November 23, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve

Drinks, Crime and Prohibition

https://www.smithsonianchannel.com/shows/drinks-crime-and-prohibition/1005389

This is a interesting two part series about the early part of our 20th century and there are a lot of similarities and parallels with what was going on then before,during and after alcohol prohibition and what our country has had to deal with … with the drug cartels and trying to impose a opiate prohibition.

 

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Although the source of opiate OD’s has changed… the DEA’s story HAS NOT

Posted on November 22, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve

DEA releases 2018 National Drug Threat Assessment

https://www.dea.gov/press-releases/2018/11/02/dea-releases-2018-national-drug-threat-assessment-0

WASHINGTON – DEA Acting Administrator Uttam Dhillon today announced results of the 2018 National Drug Threat Assessment, which outlines the threats posed to the United States by domestic and international drug trafficking and the abuse of illicit drugs.

“This report underscores the scope and magnitude of the ongoing opioid crisis in the United States,” said Acting Administrator Dhillon. “The information in the report represents data and critical intelligence from our law enforcement partners that was gathered over the past year. This report highlights the necessity of using all the tools at our disposal to fight this epidemic, and we must remain steadfast in our mission to combat all dangerous drugs of abuse.”

Among the key 2018 NDTA findings:

  • Controlled prescription drugs remain responsible for the largest number of overdose deaths of any illicit drug class since 2001. These drugs are the second most commonly abused substance. Traffickers are now disguising other opioids as controlled prescription drugs to gain access to this market. (pages 1-10)
  • Heroin-related drug-poisoning deaths almost doubled between 2013 and 2016. This has been exacerbated by the increased adulteration of heroin with fentanyl and other synthetic opioids. Heroin available in U.S. markets is primarily sourced from Mexico, where opium poppy cultivation and heroin production have both increased significantly in recent years. (pages 11-20)
  • Of all opioids, the abuse of illicit fentanyl and other synthetic opioids has led to the greatest number of deaths in the United States. Fentanyl is increasingly available in the form of counterfeit prescription pills marketed for illicit street sales, and also sold by traffickers on its own, without the presence of other drugs. (pages 21-37)
  • Mexican transnational criminal organizations, including the Sinaloa Cartel and Jalisco New Generation Cartel, remain the greatest criminal drug threat in the United States. The cartels are the principal wholesale drug sources for domestic gangs responsible for street-level distribution. (pages 97-99)
     
  • National and neighborhood-based street gangs and prison gangs continue to dominate the market for the street sales and distribution of illicit drugs in their respective territories throughout the country. Drug trafficking remains the major income source for gangs. (pages 107-121)

Illicit drugs, as well as the transnational and domestic criminal organizations that traffic them, continue to represent significant threats to public health, law enforcement, and national security in the United States. In 2016, approximately 174 people died every day from drug poisoning, outnumbering deaths by firearms, motor vehicle crashes, suicide and homicide. The opioid threat – including controlled prescription drugs, fentanyl and other synthetic opioids, and heroin – has had a devastating effect on our country.

In 2017, synthetic opioids such as fentanyl were involved in nearly 30,000 deaths, and from 2016-2017, Mexican heroin production grew by 37 percent. Mexican cartels continue to make large quantities of cheap methamphetamine and deliver it to the United States through the Southern border. Seizures at the border increased from 8,900 pounds in 2010 to nearly 82,000 pounds thus far in 2018.

New enforcement priorities and programs implemented by the Justice Department and DEA will positively impact our communities and ultimately save American lives. The Department of Justice has aggressively targeted the opioid crisis through robust manpower and funding, enabling federal law enforcement agencies like the DEA to conduct enforcement operations that target anyone violating the Controlled Substance Act.

In the past year, the Justice Department and DEA have engaged in new projects and initiatives to combat this scourge. DOJ and DEA established Operation Synthetic Opioid Surge, a new program seeking to reduce the supply of deadly synthetic opioids in high-impact areas and identify wholesale distribution networks and suppliers, both domestic and international; added additional heroin enforcement task forces; brought the indictments of two Chinese fentanyl traffickers, Jian Zhang and Xiaobing Yan; extradited  Mexican drug traffickers; reduced the aggregate production quota; emergency scheduled all forms of illicit fentanyl; assigned special federal prosecutors to prosecute opioid-related investigations; authorized the hiring of more than 400 additional task force officers; and continue to work with the Chinese Government resulting in further controls being placed on fentanyl analogs, and related substances.

This month, the Justice Department announced new measures to dismantle transnational criminal organizations. The creation of a Transnational Organized Crime Task Force of prosecutors will coordinate the DOJ’s efforts to fight transnational organized crime. The task force will focus on top transnational organized crime threats that include MS-13, Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion, the Sinaloa Cartel, Clan del Golfo and Lebanese Hezbollah, a majority of which are included in DEA’s National Drug Threat Assessment.

The National Drug Threat Assessment provides a yearly assessment of the many challenges local communities face related to drug abuse and drug trafficking. Highlights in the report include usage and trafficking trends for drugs such as prescription drugs, heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine, marijuana and the hundreds of synthetic drugs.

The assessment factors in information from many data sources such as drug seizures, drug purity, laboratory analyses, information on the involvement of organized criminal groups and data provided to DEA by state and local law enforcement agencies across the country.

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I WANT JUSTICE !

Posted on November 22, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve

I saw this “I WANT JUSTICE” stated by a chronic pain pt somewhere on the web in the last week. So “you” want justice out of our judicial system that is mostly self-serving.  Our judicial is basically can be divided into two segments courts/attorneys and cops/law enforcement.

One has to ask if some of the shows that we see on TV …. Bull, Blue Bloods, Chicago PD… comes to mind… reflects how those parts of our judicial system really act/function ?

We are seeing more and more “video” from cops’ body cameras… some showing the “good side” of law enforcement and some the “not so good side”.

I can’t count the number of times that pts have told me that they have tried to file a complaint with the agency that is suppose to enforce the Americans with Disability Act and get a “not interested” from the agency, but they are part of the DOJ, just like the DEA is.

Two decades ago we saw a group of attorneys (46 state AG’s)  sue the tobacco industry for the harm/cost of them selling a legal product and extracted/extorted a minimum of 206 Billion that is to be paid off over 25 yrs… and that will be coming to a end in the next five years or so.

Now some of those same attorneys are now lining up to sue all the parts of the opiate pharmaceutical manufacturers and those in the distribution channels. I am just waiting for them to start including the insurance/PBM industry in these lawsuits because they did – to some extent – facilitate all of these opiate prescriptions because they paid some/most/all of the cost of these opiate prescriptions.

All one has to do is visit http://doctorsofcourage.org/ website to read about the many fabricated cases the DEA has brought against all too many doctors and confiscated all of the doc’s assets and closed their practices.  Kind of reminds you of the stories that were told about the Mafia that extracted/extorted money from small business for “protection insurance” so that their small business would not “put out of business” by some tragic event.

IF you have noticed all of these lawsuits at the pharma/opiate industry is being done by private law firms on a contingency basis. So the bureaucracy .. who claims that it has suffered financial damages from the “opiate crisis” they are not even putting any of the taxpayers’ money to seek restitution.

Should the chronic pain community follow the state/federal bureaucrats in how to hopefully  “level the playing field” ? It would appear that no law firm is going to take on this issue on a contingency basis. Entities like the ACLU and other who try to fight for people who have their civil rights violated seem to have no interest.  There is claimed that there is 20 -30 million pts suffering from  intractable chronic pain and while most all of the talking head talk about the 200 odd million opiate prescriptions being TOO MANY…

Just to treat the 30 million intractable chronic pain pts would take 720 million opiate prescriptions if prescribers followed the standard of care and best practice in treating intractable chronic pain pts.  When you throw in the opiate needs of the other odd 70 million chronic pain pts and those pts suffering from acute pain caused by accidents, surgery and other valid issues… could easily push that number closer to TWO BILLION opiate prescriptions. Close to TEN TIMES what the “talking heads” claim are TOO MANY.

What are the chronic pain community’s options ?  – IMO – it boils down to TWO… continue to suffer as the attorneys/DEA force more and more pts off their opiate pain management buy intimidating and bullying prescribers… — OR —  create a non profit legal defense fund.  If 10% of the chronic pain community each contributed $5 – ONE TIME… FIVE MILLION legal defense fund could be created.

Law firms will be lining up to demonstrate how they could level the playing field for the chronic pain community.

IMO… the chronic pain community needs to come together and that doesn’t mean thousands of Face Book pages, and other internet contact points or the DEA and the rest of our judicial system will hand their painful ass to them as we watch the number of suicides climb exponentially.

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They have just begun to control if/when/where/how much healthcare that you get

Posted on November 21, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve

Anthem Announces Collaboration with Walmart

CVS to Buy Aetna for $69 Billion in a Deal That May Reshape the Health Industry

Walgreens and Humana are reportedly in talks to take stakes in each other

 

 

CVS Health is probably a little ahead of the pack…but.. they all seem to be going in the same direction. They are seemingly moving toward what Obamacare wanted to happen when it was passed nearly a decade ago … Accountable Care Organization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accountable_care_organization

One entity that would “take care” of all the pt’s medical needs and being paid a flat $$$/pt/month for whatever the pt’s healthcare needs were.

Right now under the CVS Health umbrella has abt 10,000 community pharmacies, the largest nursing home pharmacy (Omnicare), the PBM Caremark, the Part D insurance (Silver Scripts), specialty pharmacies, walk-in Minute Clinics and before the end of the year they will have some 42 million beneficiaries with the acquisition of Aetna Health Insurance.  To complete the circle all they need to do is acquire or align/merge with a large hospital system.

Now we have Walmart and Anthem collaborating especially with Medicare Advantage and Part D pts having Anthem insurance and Walgreens and Humana doing some sort of a merger.

One can only imagine the financial incentives – disincentives if a person is a beneficiary of one of these insurance companies. CVS is already with Medicare folks that have their Silver Scripts insurance … they pay higher copays … unless they get their prescriptions filled at a ‘preferred pharmacy” and in my area.. all the “preferred pharmacies” are CVS stores. For me the closest CVS store is 8 miles in one direction and 12 miles in the opposite direction.

In the county that I live in there are TWO CVS Stores – abt 0.5 miles apart (one is former Target).. the county to the west there is ONE STORE and the county to the east has THREE.

CVS just recently announced that there Minute Clinics were going to start treating CHRONIC CONDITIONS..  until now.. all the walk in clinics in most chain pharmacies are there to treat acute health issues, give vaccinations, school health physicals and the like.  Is this change so that they can “encourage” there soon to be acquired 42 million Aetna beneficiaries to switch from their normal PCP to their minute clinic ?  Will that “encouragement” eventually turn into “mandatory” ?

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Senators: urging the DEA for months to go even further to reduce the risk of opioid painkillers being abused

Posted on November 21, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve

Senators Pressed DEA to Cut Rx Opioid Supply

https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2017/11/13/senators-pressured-dea-to-cut-rx-opioid-supply

By Pat Anson, Editor

A group of 16 U.S. senators played an influential role in getting the Drug Enforcement Administration to make further cuts in the supply of opioid pain medication, the latest example of how politicians have inserted themselves into the healthcare choices of Americans.

As PNN reported, the DEA published an order last week in the Federal Register that cut the 2018 production quotas for Schedule II opioid painkillers by 20 percent. It’s the second year in a row the DEA has ordered steep reductions in the supply of opioids. The move affects several commonly prescribed medications that millions of pain patients rely on for relief, such as oxycodone, hydrocodone, morphine and codeine.

The DEA acted even after drug makers and patients warned the agency that the cuts were so severe they could lead to shortages of pain medication. Under federal law, the DEA sets production quotas for manufacturers of opioid medication and other controlled substances. This year the agency reduced the amount of almost every Schedule II opioid medication by 25 percent or more.

The 16 senators – 15 Democrats and one independent – have been urging the DEA for months to go even further to reduce the risk of opioid painkillers being abused.

“As the gatekeeper for how many opioids are allowed to be sold legally every year in the United States, we commend DEA on taking initial steps last year to lower production quotas for the first time in a generation,” Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois wrote in a letter to DEA Acting Administrator Chuck Rosenberg on July 11.

“However, the 2017 production quota levels for numerous schedule II opioids remain dramatically higher than they were a decade ago.  Further reductions, through DEA’s existing quota-setting authority, are necessary to rein in this epidemic.”

SEN. DICK DURBIN

SEN. DICK DURBIN

Durbin’s letter was co-signed by 15 of his Senate colleagues: Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Edward Markey (D-MA), Joe Manchin (D-WV), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Claire McCaskill (D-MO), Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Maggie Hassan (D-NH), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Al Franken (D-MN) and Angus King (I-ME).

Durbin followed up with a personal meeting with Rosenberg at DEA headquarters on August 3. The meeting was also attended by Senators Brown, Shaheen, Manchin, Markey and Hassan.

“I commend Administrator Rosenberg for acknowledging that the DEA can do more to keep dangerous painkillers off our streets,” Durbin said in a statement after the meeting.  “In today’s meeting, I asked him to continue this effort and further lower the opioid quotas for 2018.  Fewer pills on the market means less addiction and, hopefully, fewer deaths.”   

The August 3 meeting is important, because the very next day the DEA announced it would publish a notice in the Federal Register that it was planning a 20% reduction in Schedule II opioids for 2018.

rosenberg (left) meeting with durbin and other senators

rosenberg (left) meeting with durbin and other senators

The notice opened up a 30-day public comment period on the DEA’s proposal. Over a hundred people wrote in, most of them pain sufferers who warned the DEA it was going too far.

“The quotas for 2017 caused some shortages at pharmacies. I do not understand the reasoning behind more aggressive production quotas for 2018. People I know who are long term chronic pain patients have gone to the pharmacy for their prescription and are told that it will be a week or 10 days to fill the prescription,” wrote Marjorie Zimdars-Orthman. “It is cruel to implement quotas that will cause pharmacy shortages.”

“This is just beyond insane. Far too many people are already suffering and committing suicide due to not being able to get proper pain management,” said Eric Busch. “Even those that find a doctor willing to actually treat the pain humanely and write a prescription, might not be able to fill said prescription if there are artificial quotas and shortages.”

“How can the government ensure that these quotas will not adversely affect pain patients?” asked Brian Teer, whose wife has suffered from chronic pain for nearly 20 years. “I implore you to consider the medical needs of unfortunate patients like my wife, who face the burden of untreated intractable pain. Please do not reduce the production of the very medications that she needs to continue living. Please do not take her life.”

The DEA said three unidentified drug makers also made comments, warning that the 2018 quotas for codeine, fentanyl, hydrocodone, methadone, morphine, oxycodone and oxymorphone “were insufficient to provide for the estimated medical, scientific, research, and industrial needs of the United States.”   

The only comment left in support of the 2018 production quotas included a second letter from Durbin and his colleagues, warning that opioid supplies “remain far too high.”

“Given everything we now know about the threat posed by opioids and DEA’s downstream efforts to tackle this problem, there is no adequate justification for the volume of opioids approved for the market,” the letter said.

In the end, the DEA sided with the 16 senators, ruling that the 2018 opioid quotas were “sufficient” to meet the needs of patients. The agency dismissed the comments from pain sufferers as medical complaints that were “outside of the scope” of its final order.

“These one hundred and six comments did not provide new discrete data for consideration, and do not impact the original analysis involved in establishing the 2018 aggregate production quotas,” wrote Robert Patterson, who became acting head of the DEA after Rosenberg resigned unexpectedly in September.

Opioid Quotas Should ‘Continue to Come Down’

Sen. Durbin and his colleagues are apparently not done yet, and may seek to rein in the supply of opioids even further in 2019.

Durbin recently joined with Sen. Markey in introducing the Opioid QuOTA Act, a bill that seeks more transparency from the DEA in disclosing how it sets opioid production quotas. The legislation would require the agency to list on its website the production quota for each opioid manufacturer, information that the DEA now considers confidential.

“The public deserves the right to know which drug companies are manufacturing these opioids, how many they are producing each year, and their justification for asking the DEA to approve their ever-increasing quota requests,” Durbin said in a statement.

“Our work will not be done until these quotas continue to come down, doctors become more judicious in their prescribing, drug companies stop misleading the public about their products, and we do more to help those who are currently addicted get treatment.”

Along with Durbin and Markey, the legislation is co-sponsored by Senators Manchin, Brown, Shaheen and Hassan – the same group of senators that met with the DEA administrator in August and pressed him to make further cuts in the opioid supply.

This is another good example that we have well intention “idiots” in Congress… and since only a couple of seats in the Senate were turned over in the recent election.. meaning no one bothered to pay attention that only ONE SENATOR from UTAH VOTED NO on a bill that was a composite of some 70 odd bills to help TREAT ADDICTS and would do NOTHING TO TREAT CHRONIC PAINERS.  This bill was voted on BEFORE THE NOV 2018 ELECTION.

“They” throw around the figure that 200 million opiate Rxs/yr is TOO MANY… apparently they don’t know – or care – about what has always been the standard of care and best practices for treating chronic pain.

It is claimed that there is some 20-30 million intractable chronic painers – meaning that they need opiates 24/7.  Best practices and standard of care suggests that these people need 24 Rxs/yr – each being 30 days..  Let’s take the medium number of 25 million .. those intractable chronic pain pts will need 600 million opiate prescriptions to help manage their pain and meet what has always been best practices and standard of care.

That is THREE TIMES what the “know-it-all bureaucrats” claims is EXCESSIVE..  That leaves NO OPIATES for the 70 odd million of chronic pain pts that are probably able to get by with NSAID’s and taking opiates on a semi-regular basis and NO OPIATES for anyone dealing with acute pain or surgically induced pain.

No one really knows how many opiate Rxs are really needed – it is probably in the BILLIONS… it is certainly not LESS THAN 200 MILLION.

If you bothered to read the article – or my opinion – NOT ONE REPUBLICAN SIGNED THIS LETTER.

If you look back in history it was a Democratic controlled Congress that passed the Harrison Narcotic Act 1917 and the Controlled Substance Act 1970

It was a Republican controlled Congress that passed the Medicare Part D bill and the “Decade of pain legislation ” 2000

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Small Business Saturday Nov 24th

Posted on November 21, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve

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Walgreens: ” If you are a pain patient we back our pharmacists no matter what occurs.”

Posted on November 21, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve

I left Walgreens after a pharmacist was nasty with me. I remained civil and left the store. My caregiver called with me in the room. He was rude to her and hung up the phone unprovoked. He then lied to me and claimed she screamed profanity at him. It simply never happened.
I called corporate and was informed they back pharmacists when dealing with opioid prescriptions.
I asked, “Even if they are rude and unprofessional?” Answer YES…I asked,” What if they lie to a patient?” The woman actually told me, ” If you are a pain patient we back our pharmacists no matter what occurs.” To me, this screams discrimination. I found another corporation to supply my medication.

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One of 22/day: Man dead from self-inflicted gunshot wound inside Nashville VA

Posted on November 20, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve

Man dead from self-inflicted gunshot wound inside Nashville VA

https://fox17.com/news/local/police-responding-to-self-inflicted-gunshot-wound-inside-nashville-va

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WZTV) — UPDATE:

Metro Police have confirmed a man is dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound inside the Nashville Veteran Affair’s Medical Center.

It happened just after 9 a.m. Friday inside the main lobby of the facility at 1310 24th Avenue South.

The victim was transported to the Emergency Room at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Police have since confirmed the victim, an adult male, has died.

Investigators remain on scene.

If you or someone you know needs assistance in preventing a crisis or suicide, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at Call 1-800-273-8255.

Metro Police are responding to a self-inflicted gunshot wound at the Nashville Veteran Affair’s Medical Center.

It happened just after 9 a.m. Friday inside the main lobby of the facility at 1310 24th Avenue South.

The victim is being transported to the Emergency Room at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

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