Originally Posted on January 10, 2020 Jan. 9, 2020, 7:54 AM PST By The Associated Press U.S. NEWS California could launch its own generic prescription drug label Gov. Gavin Newsom wants California, home to nearly 40 million people, to contract with generic drug companies to make prescription medications on its behalf so it could then…
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What I’m Required to Go Through to Get My Prescriptions for Chronic Pain
Good, law-abiding people are suffering severely in the fallout from recent state and federal laws. These laws and prevailing societal views all begin with the false assumption that prescription pain pills are entirely to blame for rising heroin and fentanyl abuse rates. Chronic pain patients, including many elderly and disabled citizens, often feel treated like…
Who you gonna call?
It’s that time again, a time when “most” everyone who is in chronic pain wishes was easier to control, the dreaded medications refill. I have gathered my fair share of stories on this subject over the past 23-1/2 years since I was rear ended causing major chronic back pain. However I must say, I have…
Do you know what to do with those medications your no longer taking? Read the following and find out. 3/28/15
We all have them, when We were first married and merged households we found prescriptions that were 5-6 years past their expiration dates, this includes over the counter (OTC) medications (meds). Are they still at full strength? Would you still take them? Would you eat a can of food showing six years past its expiration?…
Are you certain pharmacists never make mistakes?
I am a caregiver to my mother who is dealing with copd, heart and lung issues as well as depression. She is currently taking sixteen different medications. I also am a co-caregiver to my brother in-law (BIL) who has epilepsy and lives with us, here is another nine medications. Finally I myself have…
