Ebola: Records Glitch Sent Patient Home

http://www.medpagetoday.com/InfectiousDisease/GeneralInfectiousDisease/47930?xid=nl_mpt_DHE_2014-10-04&utm_content=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DailyHeadlines&utm_source=ST&eun=g578717d0r&

The Dallas hospital that sent a patient home even though he fit the profile of a potential Ebola patient is blaming a now-corrected glitch in its electronic records system.

Then after the article was published.. the hospital RECANTED their statement

After this article was published, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas said its earlier statements regarding its electronic health records were wrong. Physicians and nurses had access to the same information.

There is a old attorney saying.. if the facts are on your side.. argue the facts.. if the law is on your side argue the law.. if neither the facts nor the laws are on your side … DENY..  DENY… DENY

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Local 2 Investigates pharmacy prescription mistakes

http://www.click2houston.com/news/local-2-investigates-pharmacy-prescription-mistakes/25788822

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Heroin takes staggering toll in Connersville

http://www.wthr.com/story/26718252/2014/10/06/heroin-takes-staggering-toll-in-connersville

From the article:

CONNERSVILLE, Ind. –

20 days. 20 overdoses. 5 deaths.

But the police chief has not seen anything like the rash of overdoses and deaths reported in the just the past few weeks.

“It’s getting really out of hand and we’re spinning our wheels,” Counceller said. “We can put [drug users] in jail, but as soon as they get out, they’ll be back at it. We’ve been accused of not doing enough, but we don’t have a magic wand. The people involved in this stuff have to want to get help.”

Connersville residents tell Eyewitness News the heroin currently circulating in their community is reportedly laced with rat poison or drain cleaner – making an already potent drug even more dangerous.

The police chief says he has heard the same reports.

“I can’t confirm that, but I can tell you they’re mixing that crap with everything you can imagine,” Counceller said. “The drug dealers don’t care what’s in it.”

Here’s a NEW FLASH for Police Chief David Counceller  these “drug abusers” have a disease… mostly mental health issues.. throwing their asses in jail .. will accomplish nothing.. all you do is keep the opiate “merry-go-round” going around in circles. Giddy-up !

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Perverse U.S. Drug Policies Promote Drug Addiction and Deaths

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/allen-frances/perverse-us-drug-policies_b_5935354.html

from the article:

The last 40 years prove conclusively that interdiction can’t possibly win the war against the cartels. Illegal drugs are more available, stronger, and cheaper than ever. We have encouraged lawlessness and civil strife in every drug-producing nation. And we have cruelly and uselessly filled our prisons with people who might otherwise have had productive lives. The key to containing the cartels is to reduce demand for their products by legalization and by providing easy access to treatment and rehabilitation. The big losers if pot is legalized will be the drug cartels and the drug companies.

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http://www.donahuehorrow.com/news/fibromyalgia-brain-fog.html

$600k For Wrongful Denial Of Disability Claim For Fibromyalgia

Attorney: Michael B. Horrow

Settlement: $600,000

Case Summary: A man diagnosed with Fibromyalgia received $600,000 after an insurance company wrongfully denied his claim for disability benefits.

Denied Disability Claim Case Description

Michael B. Horrow represented a Senior Manager IT Consultant who became totally disabled due to Fibromyalgia. He was a participant in an employee benefit plan regulated and governed under ERISA. As his symptoms progressed, he became unable to perform his occupation due to the progressive decline in cognitive function. When his claim for long term disability benefits was denied by the insurance company, Mr. Horrow took on the case.

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Some may think this post is racist others may consider it a conspiracy theory.

The Harrison Narcotic Act strongly suggests that the war on drugs evolved out of racism and bigotry

War on Drugs GENESIS… BIGOTRY ?

The war on drugs seemed to have taken a dramatic turn within 1-2 yrs after this administration came into power… the focus of the DEA seemed to move from the street level crooks and the cartels to fining large corporations with deep pockets and “rich doctors”

This administration has been pretty clear about their interest in the redistribution of wealth

African Americans constitutes 13%-14% of the population and according to this almost twice that percent is in poverty  http://blackdemographics.com/households/poverty/

The actions of our President and our AG Holder..  does not seem to be “color blind”

One of these two have “butted in” into several  local matters where a African American and a Caucasian have conflicted.. We have seen the reduced enforcement of “street vendors” of drugs on the street… while we have seen a increase enforcement on BIG BUSINESS registrants of the DEA ( wholesalers, pharmacies, prescribers).  We have a (white)  Marine (Andrew Tahmooressi)  that got lost and ended up in Mexico and has been jail for months.. http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/20/us/mexico-marine-andrew-tahmooressi-mental-state  Nothing being done by anyone in the administrations.. my money is that Tahmooressi will be release just before next month’s election.

Our southern border is wide open and illegals are flooding in..  Pelosi corrected a reporter that these ILLEGALS  are undocumented people http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/10/01/Pelosi-Corrects-Reporter-s-Usage-of-Illegal-Aliens

following this course of thought… shouldn’t all the illegal drugs on the street be classified as UNDOCUMENTED DRUGS

We have seen Obama and Holder refuse to enforce numerous laws.. in fact Holder is currently in contempt of Congress … and violate the Constitution time and again..

I know that these two were born prior to the passage of the Civil Rights Act..  Is their philosophy a sort of AFFIRMATIVE ACTION for minorities.. and some sort of “covert paybacks” to whites and “the rich”  in our society…

Here is an example.. where a hospital and CVS were found to be missing similar number of opiate doses and CVS was fined TWENTY TIMES the hospital https://www.pharmaciststeve.com/?p=6339

The war on drugs had its genesis in The Harrison Narcotic Act 1914 and that law was based on racism and bigotry … The question has to be asked… is this administration using that similar mindset of racism and bigotry to apply the DEA regulations and fight this war only in reverse.

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If  use the figure of 15,000 people die of drug overdoses annually.. since the DEA began 600,000 people have died… and that doesn’t count all those that have died from street violence over “territory”  and during the same time frame the prison population has increased 1.4 MILLION..

So the war on drugs has created this huge BLACK MARKET… that determines how much is available, where it can be sold, how much it costs and don’t have any age limit on who can buy drugs.

As they say… figures never lie and liars always figures…

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CVS Health sets target for boosting Rx adherence

http://www.chaindrugreview.com/front-page/newsbreaks/cvs-health-sets-target-for-boosting-rx-adherence

From the article:

By 2017, CVS Health aims to raise medication adherence among its millions of patients by 5% to 15% through new interventions.

CVS outlined its goal Thursday with the release of a new Insights Report titled, “Adherence: Why It’s So Hard and What We Can Do About It.” The report, by the CVS Health Research Institute, highlights CVS’ extensive study of medication nonadherence, key findings about why people stray from their prescription regimen, and the company’s efforts to boost adherence.

“The reasons why people don’t take their medications for chronic conditions as prescribed by their health care provider are very personal and complex,” CVS Health chief scientific officer William Shrank said in a statement. “Over the past several years, CVS Health has invested in research to help the industry better understand medication nonadherence. Our goal now is to apply this knowledge and develop new interventions that will enable us to improve adherence for the patients we support.”

In the report, CVS noted that almost half of people taking a medication for a chronic disease stop doing so in the first year, with the biggest drop-off in the first month. Among patients on statin drugs, more than 50% stop taking their medicine in the first year.

I wonder if they count the chronic pain pts as being non-compliant when their Pharmacists refuse to fill their legit/on time/medically necessary Rxs ?

Here is a quote from the DEA …

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is not trying to limit or ration access to opioid painkillers, according to a DEA spokesman who says “nothing should stand in the way” of a patient getting a legitimate prescription for pain medication filled.

“We’re not doctors. We’re regulators and enforcers of the law. If something is prescribed for a legitimate medical purpose, we’re certainly not going to get in the way,” said DEA spokesman Rusty Payne.

So is the DEA lying or CVS and other pharmacies discriminating against a certain category of patients ?

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http://www.libertynews.com/2014/10/tragic-story-of-ebola-patient-zero-thomas-duncans-final-hours-at-dallas-home-just-released/

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I bet a lot of potential robbers in this area… are thinking twice about what pharmacy they are going to rob next… Apparently this fellow is not up on the news that chain pharmacists are not ARMED… per company policy !

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