NEPO Task Force Poised to Increase Overdose Crisis

Polysubstance Use & Tainted Supply on the Black Market are Driving the Overdose Crisis

NEPO Task Force Poised to Increase Overdose Crisis

Posted on July 3rd, 2022 by Hope411Adcock

Just two days after the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) released a 9-0 opinion favoring physicians exercising their clinical judgment when prescribing medication to patients under the Controlled Substance Act, the Justice Department announced the formation of a new strike force targeting medical professionals prescribing and dispensing controlled substances. A June 29, 2022 "Justice Department’s Criminal Division Creates New England Prescription Opioid
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Patients Forced to Play Medical Roulette

Posted on June 10th, 2022 by Hope411Adcock

For patients with rare disease, complex chronic illnesses and disabilities navigating the health care system has become a fight for survival. Patients experience systemic disability discrimination and bias when attempting to obtain or retain access to treatments and medications that are critical to maintaining their health. Due to interference with the practice of medicine, patients are being forced to play
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Discrimination As A Standard Practice

Posted on April 14th, 2021 by Hope411Adcock

Many people believe that Opioid Sparing is becoming the standard practice in medicine. They are sadly mistaken. Instead, the standard practice is now to discriminate against patients with disabilities with severe pain as a component. Many facilities have instituted No-Opioid Policies. If patients have an allergy to NSAIDS or a comorbidity like Chron's disease, or Kidney Disease they may be
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A Letter to Health Care Providers

Posted on April 9th, 2021 by Hope411Adcock

Too often I hear of instances of times when patients attend an appointment with a healthcare provider and attempt to discuss an issue with them and come out feeling worse than the did when they went in.It's sad, truly disappointing. In some cases when the patient has a rare medical condition like Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) the medical provider
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