Archive for January, 2008

The National Network for Chronic Interactable Pain provides a Legal and Reliable Alternative to Online Consultation Services (OCS)

The NNICP; National Network for Chronic Intractable Pain, is currently serving patients in Arizona, Virginia, Texas, Nevada, and California. In following compliance with DEA guidelines they can also help you save you lots of money by catering a much more reliable service. Additionally prescriptions from their doctors within your state will be mailed to you [...]

Minorities Receive Less Narcotic Pain Medication

I found the folllowing statement interesting; the entire story can be found at:
http://health.usnews.com/usnews/health/healthday/080102/minorities-less-likely-to-get-powerful-painkillers-in-er.htm
‘White patients received opioid drugs 31 percent of the time, compared to lower rates among blacks (23 percent), Hispanic (24 percent), and other groups such as Asians (28 percent). In 2005, whites received the drugs 40 percent of the time, while all others [...]

After 2 years in prison, a man is free – maybe

If you wondered what happened to the man with the 58 pain killers two posts down, you can find an update of what happened at http://www.sptimes.com/2007/08/05/Hillsborough/After_2_years_in_pris.shtml .
If I was prescribed 80 tablets of Vicodin over a period of 8 months I am 100% sure that there would not be ANY pills left. Further I think the people who do take their Vicodin so rarely would not have carried a bottle around in [...]

Wisconsin pharmacist accused of stealing pills to fuel drug addiction

I found this post in a newsgroup today and am really happy for this guy no charges were pressed although this seems a rare exeption these days ;) I really wonder what the district attorney will do, with the crackdowns on abuse of this kind of medications it would seem pretty weird if they let this one go… If anyone [...]