Topic: prescription medications

Most people don’t expect to have a criminal enterprise operating in public, under the guise of a community resource.

“If the patient takes them for other reasons, or even resells them on the street– well, nothing I can do about that. It’s the patient’s own fault.”

Modern healthcare, for all its spectacular innovation, still lacks a genuinely safe, effective remedy for certain types of pain.

Medicare spending on compounded topical drugs has surged 3400% since 2006.

To support revenues, companies look for ways to augment or alter older products and justify price increases.

This isn’t a problem a physician can deal with comfortably in the context of a 12-15 minute office visit.

Naloxone is there to prevent someone from injecting Suboxone to get high.

It’s hard to accept that what began in an effort to help people in pain has turned into this unholy mess.

…in the midst of an epidemic, we’ve actually come up with a way to increase drug use.

“I probably would have taken them anyway. I was really hoping for a chemical fix.”