Sunday, August 26, 2018

Looking To The Future - Pain Treatment - Addiction - Overdoses - It's Time To Work Together

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As PainWeek approaches physicians who treat pain and those who treat addiction come together to look toward the future of pain treatment. I...
Thursday, August 23, 2018

As Medical Access to Opioids is Reduced Mexican Cartels Pick Up the Slack

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As the government reduces access to pain medications for patients Mexican cartels are picking up the slack with fentanyl, pounds and pounds ...
Monday, August 20, 2018

PainWeek in Las Vegas Sept 4th to 8th

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I'm going to Vegas for a few days in September for  PainWeek. It's a big deal in the pain management world. PainWeek.org say's ...
Thursday, August 16, 2018

Suicide Watch - You need to Read This..

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Need to read  Pharmacist  Steve's article Suicide Watch  http://www.pharmaciststeve.com/?attachment_id=21115  I am being completely ...
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Monday, July 23, 2018

Why Are Dealers Mixing Fentanyl in Heroin?

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We see or hear on the news about Fentanyl quite often these days. Most of the news is about people who overdosed on a mixture of Heroin an...
Friday, July 20, 2018

Arizona Medical Board Doesn't Have a Plan for Pain Patients and It's Costing Lives

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In 1990 Dr Albert Yeh of Golden Valley Arizona was arrested by DEA for over prescribing opioids, and another pain doctor just up and left Ne...
Friday, July 6, 2018

How Many Times Do We Need to Read About Pain Patient Suicides

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Even though pain is the most common reason patients see a doctor, pain wasn't treated in the 90's. Pain was undertreated and patient...
Tuesday, July 3, 2018

Good News Dr Vaipiani is a Board Certified Pain Specialist

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Good News Dr Vaipiani is a Board Certified Pain Specialist. I want to thank Shawn at the Kingman Daily Miner for finding Dr Vaipiani listed ...
Wednesday, June 27, 2018

Know A Pain Patient Who Committed Suicide for Lack of Pain Management? Contact Me

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I f you know someone who committed suicide because their pain medications were lowered too far, please contact me. Physicians take an oath...
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Tuesday, June 26, 2018

Governor Ducey says the Opioid Epidemic Act language was specifically designed to protect individuals with chronic pain

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I contacted Governor Ducey's Office of Constituent Engagement about physicians cutting down the dose of current long time pain patients....
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Tuesday, June 19, 2018

Reducing Opioid Medications for Patients Does Not Reduce Overdoses

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Alliance Offers Patient-Centered Opioid Prescribing Recommendations June 13, 2018 Advocacy group describes why CDC Guidelines o...
Thursday, June 14, 2018

American's Over 65 Don't Abuse Opioid Medications

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What the government is doing to patients over the so called the Opioid Epidemic is wrong. Reducing the dose of pain medications for any long...
Wednesday, June 13, 2018

New Opioid Prescribing Law, Did the Legislature Know AZ Only Had 41 Certified Pain Specialists?

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I don't believe the Arizona Legislature knew how many certified pain management physicians there were in Arizona when they passed the ne...
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Monday, June 11, 2018

People Who Abuse Opioids Can Get 5-6 Times As Much Opioids as Patients in Pain? WHAT?

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Something is Very Wrong with This!!!! The government has physicians who treat the nations 100,000,000 pain patents so afraid of loosing th...
Sunday, June 10, 2018

The suicide rate in the U.S. is so high it rivals the so-called “opioid epidemic

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New CDC Report Ignores Suicides of Pain Patients  It looks like the Federal Government doesn't care if pain patients take their own li...

Stop The War On Chronic Pain Patients

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In March of this year, the US Centers for Disease Control released “voluntary guidelines” on prescription of opioid medications to adults wi...
Saturday, June 9, 2018

The 12 Warning Signs for Suicide

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According to THIS article in Health Central tells us the warning signs of suicide.... By recognizing these 12 warning signs in yoursel...

ONLY 2% of Opioid Deaths in Nevada involved a single prescription opioid. So Why are Millions of Pain Patients Suffering?

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Nevada records show only 2% of overdoses are from prescribed pain pills....  Just 11 percent of the opioid-related deaths in Clark County (4...
Thursday, June 7, 2018

New on the Streets... Gabapentin (Neurontin) a Drug for Nerve Pain, and a New Target of Misuse UPDATED

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UPDATE  According to the Pain News Network Gabapentin (Neurontin) – an anti-seizure drug widely prescribed off-label to treat pain -- was ...