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New Opioid Guidelines Redefining ‘Compassion’ For Montana Doctors http://mtpr.org/post/new-opioid-guidelines-redefining-compassion-montana-doctors   As the nation faces an epidemic of opioid drug abuse after a decade of aggressively prescribing narcotics , Montana doctors are becoming more cautious about giving painkillers to chronic pain patients. It’s changing some patients ability to get treatment and what is considered compassionate care […]

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July 7, 2017 Scott Gottlieb, MD Commissioner of Food and Drugs, U.S. Food and Drug Administration 10923 New Hampshire Avenue Silver Spring, MD 20993 RE: Docket No. FDA-2017-D-2497 Dear Dr. Gottlieb, Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing (PROP) is pleased that FDA intends to revise the Blueprint for Prescriber Education for Extended-Release and Long-Acting (ER/LA) Opioids […]

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Trump’s Pick For Drug Czar Hauled In Thousands Of Dollars From Drug Distributors He Wrote Bill To Protect http://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/trumps-pick-drug-czar-hauled-thousands-dollars-drug-distributors-he-wrote-bill VIDEO ON ABOVE LINK President Donald Trump recently launched a high-profile White House initiative to combat the growing problem of opioid drug abuse in America. Yet his expected selection to oversee the nation’s drug laws is a […]

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Andrew Kolodny, executive director of Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing, is frustrated that efforts to better control opioid prescriptions are being delayed and interfering with his Addiction Recovery Centers from generating profits ? CDC’s proposed guidelines on opioids create uproar http://www.kansascity.com/living/health-fitness/article62911442.html#storylink=cpy Guidelines advising doctors on how and when to prescribe opioid pain pills have proved […]

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PROP Keeps Lying About Opioids – This Time They Got Caught https://www.acsh.org/news/2022/07/05/prop-keeps-lying-about-opioids-time-they-got-caught-16409 If there’s any reason to doubt the veracity of Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing (PROP) there is now more. The group lied about the results of a June debate on the cause of the opioid crisis. We caught it. Photo Credit: Piotr Siedlecki […]

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https://www.8newsnow.com/news/local-news/i-team-pain-med-prescriptions-did-not-cause-opioid-epidemic-courts-rule/ LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Five years after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention initiated a crackdown on opioid pain medications, experts have concluded the policy has been a miserable failure. Overdose deaths have gone up, not down, and now, courts are starting to recognize the arguments used to justify the crackdown are largely bogus. […]

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DEAR ADVOCATE ARMY Those with chronic painful conditions have a real reason to celebrate this holiday season! Last week two courts discredited widely accepted propaganda regarding opioid medications. One California and another Oklahoma Supreme Court judge illustrated how misleading this widely accepted and heavily promoted propaganda really is. Both of these court decisions recognize that […]

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When you look at who was on this CDC committee and their medical qualifications… and they knew or should have known that the VA Hospital system and the DEA had the intention to take these opiate dosing guidelines a lot farther and just guideline.  Those two entities using their ability to coerce medical professionals to […]

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Maximum Opioid Doses: A Pharmacological Abomination https://www.acsh.org/news/2020/06/22/maximum-opioid-doses-pharmacological-abomination-14858 Despite irrefutable pharmacological evidence of the wide range in individuals’ metabolism of opioid drugs, states continue to impose “one-size-fits-none” laws. For example, Massachusetts, apparently not entirely at peace with the abolition of the Salem witch trials, became the first state to establish a seven-day limit on first-time opioid prescriptions. Others […]

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Neurontin: The Darling of the Anti-Opioid Crowd. But Does It Work? https://www.acsh.org/news/2019/05/07/neurontin-darling-anti-opioid-crowd-does-it-work-14005 The mad rush to purge this country of demonic prescription analgesic drugs (mainly Vicodin and Percocet) has pain patients and their doctors in an unprecedented dilemma. The tapering or complete discontinuation of painkilling drugs that pain patients have been using successfully for years, even decades, and […]

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