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Physician groups praise panel passage bill to end prior authorization
https://www.ama-assn.org/press-center/press-releases/physician-groups-praise-panel-passage-bill-end-prior-authorization Comment; Ending Prior Authorizations for opioid treatment medications is a great start. We REALLY need to end Prior Authoriazations for ALL...
OxyContin Maker Explored Expansion Into “Attractive” Anti-Addiction Market
https://www.propublica.org/article/oxycontin-purdue-pharma-massachusetts-lawsuit-anti-addiction-market Comment; The Sackler family is evil. They need to be taken out financially. This is their god. Oxycontin is an amoral product; neither good nor evil, it has helped...
U.S. Prosecutors Sue To Stop Nation’s First Supervised Injection Site For Opioids
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/02/06/691746907/u-s-prosecutors-sue-to-stop-nation-s-first-supervised-injection-site Comment; I don't think safe needle-exchange houses and places where illegal drugs are used, and in a sense promoted by the presence of...
Many Addiction Centers Lack Anti-Opioid Meds: Study
https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2019-01-22/many-addiction-centers-lack-anti-opioid-meds-study Comment; I'm not so worried about facilities offering buprenorphine, methadone AND naltrexone. What concerns me is that only about a third of centers offered...
Heavy drinking may change DNA, leading to increased craving for alcohol
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/01/190129081939.htm Comment; PER2, which influences the body's biological clock, and POMC, which regulates our stress-response system. Methylation of the promotor region of the DNA turns the gene "on". This is becoming a more...
Pharmacological Treatments for Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/article-abstract/2721247 Comment; It's about time that we had a Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome study on the effects of Buprenorphine! As I've suspected for a long time, it's better than Methadone! Maybe now these babies...
Editorial Comment: Cannabis for treatment of Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) | 2.12.2019
https://www.asam.org/asamw-editorial-comment/asam-weekly-editorial-comment/2019/02/11/editorial-comment-cannabis-for-treatment-of-opioid-use-disorder-(oud) Comment; We DO need more information on Cannabis, one way or aother to support or suppress use of this plant. I...
Breaking the Silence
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2722776 Comment; So good to hear an academic residency director honestly disclosing the "sordid past" of her genetic makeup! Will the state medical board attack her too? A Piece of My MindJanuary 29, 2019...
Five reasons some in Connecticut are saying ‘no’ to legal marijuana
https://www.courant.com/politics/hc-news-anti-marijuana-legalization-meeting-20190123-6p4curhusfbadjxxdlbkh6sjra-story.html Comment; Right isn't always popular. I agree with keeping pot illegal By REBECCA LURYE| HARTFORD COURANT |JAN 23,...
Philadelphia jail scrambles to find doctors who can prescribe addiction treatment
https://whyy.org/articles/philadelphia-jail-scrambles-to-find-doctors-who-can-prescribe-addiction-treatment/ Comment; Trump is doing a good job in DC. He needs to eliminate the limit on BUP prescribers, let those with training prescribe as needed! Nina Feldman...
The Importance Of Patient-Centric Opioid Prescribing Guidelines
https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshuacohen/2019/01/23/the-importance-of-patient-centric-opioid-prescribing-guidelines/#7c9559fc1b7a Comment; Makes sense. Physicians should be able to prescribe as their training and experience, coupled with the needs of the patient...
Judge orders full release of redacted lawsuit against Purdue Pharma, maker of OxyContin
https://www.statnews.com/2019/01/28/judge-order-full-release-purdue-pharma-lawsuit/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20Daily%20Health%20Policy%20Report&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=69390981&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-84cjHW-gpUl0-Hgmgxv6-HeC8YFxKWFYgnv6wmrtU8AqVP80E-1uZHIozS...
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