I don’t know why you believe doctors get “kickbacks” from drug companies for prescribing their medications. Ethics rules have evolved to the point pharmaceutical reps can’t give out pens or post it pads with their logo.
I cross checked it, only reason I used the original and it did have more info than the other sources.
This is 1 subject I have a ton of experience with, as a Intractable Pain Patient. We’ve been compiling the info to counter the FAKE news.
This also goes with the OPEN BORDERS as the mules bring it in from Mexico, China, and other Poppy producing places that way, even via US Mail from China.
But it is truly impacting those who really need pain medication as there are NO cures for the diseases they have, and no research as they are rare or small pools.
Not in a very good order, as they have been randomly collected, sorry if any repeats, tried to cull those out.
Survey Shows Doctors Shunning Chronic Pain
https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2017/3/14/survey-shows-doctors-shunning-chronic-pain-patients
These Are The Drugs Doctors Get Paid The Most To Promote
http://www.businessinsider.com/what-drugs-are-doctors-paid-the-most-to-promote-2015-1
Drug-Company Payments Mirror Doctors’ Brand-Name Prescribing
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/03/17/470679452/drug-company-payments-mirror-doctors-brand-name-prescribing
Is Your Doctor Getting Drug Kickbacks?
http://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/is-your-doctor-getting-drug-kickbacks/
Why the DEA intentionally lets drugs into communities (links
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/04/11/the-dea-chief-will-have-to-check-whether-dea-lets-drugs-into-communities-on-purpose-they-do/
Psychiatric Medications Kill More Americans than Heroin
http://www.rehabs.com/pro-talk-articles/psychiatric-medications-kill-more-americans-than-heroin/
Massive drug bust in Dayton connected to Mexican drug cartel Sinaloa
http://wdtn.com/2017/04/13/montgomery-county-sheriff-and-ohio-ag-announce-large-fentanyl-seizure/
Companies and The Government
http://blog.seakexperts.com/urine-drug-tests-pain-management-defrauding-patients-insurance-companies-government/
Docs warn that Medicare crackdown will hurt pain patients
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/docs-warn-that-medicare-crackdown-will-hurt-pain-patients-235917
Survey Finds CDC Opioid Guidelines Harming Patients
https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2017/3/13/survey-finds-cdc-opioid-guidelines-harming-patients
Doctors are cutting opioids, even if it harms patients
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/01/02/doctors-curtail-opioids-but-many-see-harm-pain-patients/z4Ci68TePafcD9AcORs04J/story.html
Dr. Tennant. basically summarized almost everything we have been saying regarding the CDC guidelines. It is very refreshing to read a more balanced view...
https://www.practicalpainmanagement.com/treatments/pharmacological/opioids/living-cdc-opioid-guidelines
Opioid Overdose Statistics: As Clear as Mud
https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2016/12/17/opioid-overdose-statistics-as-clear-as-mud?rq=pain%20statistics
Why the CDC Needs to Recognize Palliative Care
https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2017/3/28/why-the-cdc-needs-to-recognize-palliative-care
Maine veterinarians say new pain meds law puts animals, humans at risk
http://bangordailynews.com/2017/03/29/news/state/maine-veterinarians-say-new-pain-meds-law-puts-animals-humans-at-risk/?ref=relatedSidebar
CDC: Painkillers Not Driving Spike in Fatal Opioid Overdoses
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/873481
Illegally Manufactured Fentanyl Linked to Rise in Overdoses
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/867986
CDC Issues Opioid Guidelines for ‘Doctor-Driven’ Epidemic
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/860452
Doctors warn against teen pot use amid looser marijuana laws
http://keyetv.com/news/nation-world/doctors-warn-against-teen-pot-use-amid-looser-marijuana-laws-02-27-2017-185039914
Experts sound alarm after 40% increase of fentanyl-laced street drugs tested in Canada
http://globalnews.ca/news/3016218/experts-sound-alarm-after-43-increase-of-fentanyl-laced-street-drugs-tested-in-canada/
Docs warn that Medicare crackdown will hurt pain patients
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/docs-warn-that-medicare-crackdown-will-hurt-pain-patients-235917
Survey Finds CDC Opioid Guidelines Harming Patients
https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2017/3/13/survey-finds-cdc-opioid-guidelines-harming-patientsLethal
Opiates Delivered By Mail From China, Killing Addicts In The U.S.
http://www.npr.org/2017/03/11/519649096/can-china-ban-on-deadly-opioid-save-lives-in-the-u-s
The Long History of Discrimination in Pain Medicine
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/02/chronic-pain-stigma/517689/
Audit Uncovers $124.7 B of Overpayments and Fraud in Medicare and Medicaid
http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2015/10/06/Audit-Uncovers-1247-B-Overpayments-and-Fraud-Medicare-and-Medicaid
Treasury sanctions Venezuelan vice president for drug trafficking
http://thehill.com/policy/finance/319337-treasury-sanctions-venezuelan-vice-president-for-drug-trafficking
“Pharmacogenomics and Opioid Analgesics: Clinical Implications” (full text at https://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijg/2015/368979/
Obama Commerce Department Shows One ACA-led Tax Cost Industry 28k Jobs
Massive drug bust in Dayton connected to Mexican drug cartel Sinaloa
http://wdtn.com/2017/04/13/montgomery-county-sheriff-and-ohio-ag-announce-large-fentanyl-seizure/
New drugstore lobby mandate would increase prescription drug costs in Medicare
http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/healthcare/325777-new-drugstore-lobby-mandate-would-increase-prescription-drug
TV documentary on pain treatment funded by doctor with industry ties
https://www.statnews.com/2017/03/24/pain-documentary-public-television/
The DEA Just Labeled Yet Another Powerful Healing Plant As A Schedule 1 Narcotic
http://www.organicandhealthy.org/2017/04/the-dea-just-labeled-yet-another.html?m=1
DEA Order Places Six ‘Spice’ Ingredients on Schedule I no medical value
https://cannabisnow.com/dea-order-places-six-spice-ingredients-schedule/
DEA: Made-in-China Lethal Opioid Fueling U.S. Drug Epidemic
A homemade designer version of fentanyl, the highly addictive opioid which is similar to morphine but is 50 to 100 times more potent, has been the center of drug busts across the country this month—with law enforcement pinpointing its origin from underground labs in China. The DEA says the China-U.S. supply is further fueling the country’s drug epidemic.
http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2017/03/31/dea-made-in-china-lethal-opioid-fueling-u-s-drug-epidemic.html
NASCAR Legend’s Chronic Pain Led to Suicide
http://nationalpainreport.com/nascar-legends-chronic-pain-led-to-suicide-8819960.htmlsuicide-8819960.html
How the AARP Made $2.8 Billion By Supporting Obamacare’s Cuts to Medicare
https://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2012/09/22/the-aarps-2-8-billion-reasons-for-supporting-obamacares-cuts-to-medicare/#5d182c745935
How Money From Pharmaceutical Companies Sways Doctors’ Prescriptions
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2016/04/13/doctors-receiving-pharmaceutical-money.aspx
How Much of Big Pharma’s Massive Profits Are Used to Influence ...
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/33010-how-much-of-big-pharma-s-massive-profits-are-used-to-influence-politicians
New drugstore lobby mandate would increase prescription drug costs in Medicare
http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/healthcare/325777-new-drugstore-lobby-mandate-would-increase-prescription-drug
Big Pharma and Big Profits: The Multibillion Dollar Vaccine Market
http://www.globalresearch.ca/big-pharma-and-big-profits-the-multibillion-dollar-vaccine-market/5503945
NO CONNECTION TO PAIN MEDS
ADDICTION https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2015/6/12/there-is-no-epidemic-of-painkiller-overdoses
On Assisted Suicide, Going Beyond ‘Do No Harm’
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/05/opinion/on-assisted-suicide-going-beyond-do-no-harm.html?_r=0
DEA WAR ON DRS
http://www.federaljack.com/is-the-%E2%80%9Cwar-on-drugs%E2%80%9D-as-phony-as-the-%E2%80%9Cwar-on-terror%E2%80%9D/
Deadly New Drug: U-47700 aka U4, Pink or Pinky
https://www.inspiremalibu.com/blog/drug-addiction/deadly-new-drug-u-47700-aka-u4-pink-or-pinky/
Death Rates from Heroin Fentanyl laced Use
http://luxury.rehabs.com/heroin-addiction/death-mortality-rates/
Doctor Accuses Insurance Companies of Pushing Assisted Suicide Because It’s a ‘Lot Cheaper’ Than Therapy
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2017/06/01/doctor-accuses-insurance-companies-of-pushing-assisted-suicide-because-its-a-lot-cheaper-than-therapy-n2334205
CDC: Painkillers Not Driving Spike in Fatal Opioid Overdoses
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/873481
Death Rates from Heroin Fentanyl laced Use
http://luxury.rehabs.com/heroin-addiction/death-mortality-rates/
Illegally Manufactured Fentanyl Linked to Rise in Overdoses
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/867986
Survey Finds CDC Opioid Guidelines Harming Patients
https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2017/3/13/survey-finds-cdc-opioid-guidelines-harming-patients
Doctors are cutting opioids, even if it harms patients
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/01/02/doctors-curtail-opioids-but-many-see-harm-pain-patients/z4Ci68TePafcD9AcORs04J/story.html
Opioid Overdose Statistics: As Clear as Mud
https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2016/12/17/opioid-overdose-statistics-as-clear-as-mud?rq=pain%20statistics
Why the CDC Needs to Recognize Palliative Care
https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2017/3/28/why-the-cdc-needs-to-recognize-palliative-care
Maine veterinarians say new pain meds law puts animals, humans at risk
http://bangordailynews.com/2017/03/29/news/state/maine-veterinarians-say-new-pain-meds-law-puts-animals-humans-at-risk/?ref=relatedSidebar
Maine man taken off transplant list for using medical marijuana
https://bangordailynews.com/2017/03/29/news/state/maine-man-taken-off-transplant-list-for-using-medical-marijuana/?ref=latest
Survey Shows
Doctors Shunning Chronic Pain
https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2017/3/14/survey-shows-doctors-shunning-chronic-pain-patients
Medicare Beneficiaries’ High Out-of-Pocket Costs: Cost Burdens by Income and Health Status
http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2017/may/medicare-out-of-pocket-cost-burdens
How Big Pharma Might Be Cut Down To Size
https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertpearl/2017/05/11/how-big-pharma-might-be-cut-down-to-size/#6e0c2db4b997
Check out the links, how a reasonable priced drug patent got bought, repackaged and now cost $89K. It’s not just Big Pharma any more but PIG Pharma.
Pharma lobbying group boots Lake Forest drug firm as it tries to boost industry image
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-phrma-trade-group-horizon-pharma-0512-biz-20170511-story.html
Doctor Accuses Insurance Companies of Pushing Assisted Suicide Because It’s a ‘Lot Cheaper’ Than Therapy https://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2017/06/01/doctor-accuses-insurance-companies-of-pushing-assisted-suicide-because-its-a-lot-cheaper-than-therapy-n2334205
Chronic Pain Led to Suicide
http://nationalpainreport.com/nascar-legends-chronic-pain-led-to-suicide-8819960.htmlsuicide-8819960.html
Pharma Spin Only Belongs in Fiction
https://townhall.com/columnists/mytheosholt/2017/05/31/pharma-spin-only-belongs-in-fiction-n2333686?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=
Opioid overdoses are climbing. But prescription painkillers aren’t driving them anymore.
http://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/4/1/15115380/prescription-painkiller-heroin-deaths
Illegally Manufactured Fentanyl Linked to Rise in Overdoses
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/867986
Opiates Delivered By Mail From China, Killing Addicts In The U.S.
http://www.npr.org/2017/03/11/519649096/can-china-ban-on-deadly-opioid-save-lives-in-the-u-s
TSA workers helped Puerto Rico-based ring smuggle $100M of cocaine, prosecutors say
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/02/13/prosecutors-tsa-workers-helped-puerto-rico-based-ring-smuggle-100m-cocaine.html
Epic Drug Lab Scandal Results in More Than 20,000 Convictions Dropped http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/epic-drug-lab-scandal-results-more-20-000-convictions-dropped-n747891
Drugmaker pushed opioid cancer drug on patients with neck pain: state lawsuit
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-subsys-opioid-lawsuit-0826-biz-20160825-story.html
Watch: Insurance Companies Recommending Assisted Suicide for Terminally Ill Patients
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/05/31/watch-doctor-says-insurance-companies-recommending-assisted-suicide-terminally-ill-patients/
Susan Ladd: STOP Act will address key elements of opioid epidemic
http://www.greensboro.com/blogs/around_town/susan-ladd-stop-act-will-addres s-key-elements-of-opioid/article_4c73ab0f-eefc-534f-a8f8-1549c0898723.html
The Other Victims of the Opioid Epidemic
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1702188?query=TOC
Obamacare program may be linked to ER opioid prescriptions
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/obamacare-program-may-be-linked-to-er-opioid-prescriptions/article/2564111
Experts sound alarm after 40% increase of fentanyl-laced street drugs tested in Canada
http://globalnews.ca/news/3016218/experts-sound-alarm-after-43-increase-of-fentanyl-laced-street-drugs-tested-in-canada/
Opiates Delivered By Mail From China, Killing Addicts In The U.S. http://www.npr.org/2017/03/11/519649096/can-china-ban-on-deadly-opioid-save-lives-in-the-u-s
‘Gray Death’ Causes Worry
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/ohio/articles/2017-05-04/gray-death-dangerous-opioid-combo-is-latest-mixing-trend
Gray Death: The Most Powerful New Opioid Combo That’s Risky Even To Touch https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2017/05/06/gray-death-the-most-powerful-new-opioid-combo-thats-risky-even-to-touch/#4405ec2e5dfe
Treasury sanctions Venezuelan vice president for drug trafficking
http://thehill.com/policy/finance/319337-treasury-sanctions-venezuelan-vice-president-for-drug-trafficking
“Pharmacogenomics and Opioid Analgesics: Clinical Implications” (full text at https://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijg/2015/368979/
TV documentary on pain treatment funded by doctor with industry ties https://www.statnews.com/2017/03/24/pain-documentary-public-television/
The CDC’s Fictitious Opioid Epidemic, Part 1: http://ncnp.org/journal-of-medicine/1929-doctors-fleeing-pain-management-du mping-patients.html
The CDC’s Fictitious Opioid Epidemic, Part 2: http://ncnp.org/journal-of-medicine/1980-the-cdcs-fictitious-opioid-epidemi c-part-2.html
Big Pharma and Big Profits: The Multibillion Dollar Vaccine Market
http://www.globalresearch.ca/big-pharma-and-big-profits-the-multibillion-dollar-vaccine-market/5503945
Big Pharma’s big donations to 2016 presidential candidates
http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/11/health/big-pharma-presidential-politics/
True Cost of Healthcare
http://truecostofhealthcare.net/
Why Pharma Faces So Many Corruption Allegations - Forbes
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jwebb/2016/02/23/why-pharma-faces-so-many-corruption-allegations/#4f672b771bd3
New Harvard study reveals Institutional Corruption of Pharmaceuticals and how FDA cannot be trusted with public safety
http://seattleorganicrestaurants.com/vegan-whole-food/institutional-corruption-of-pharmaceuticals-how-FDA-cannot-be-trusted-with-public-safety.php#sthash.etRtisFQ.dpuf
Doctors are cutting opioids, even if it harms patients
https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2017/01/03/doctors-are-cutting-opioids-even-if-it-harms-patients
DEA cuts narcotic production
https://www.dea.gov/divisions/hq/2016/hq100416.shtml
The VA Hooked Veterans on Opioids, Then Failed Them Again
http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-va-hooked-veterans-on-opioids-then-failed-them-again-1483030270
Betsy McCaughey: Deadly ‘End-Of-Life’ Myths
http://www.investors.com/politics/columnists/betsy-mccaughey-deadly-end-of-life-myths/
Columbia University Students Support FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION, Want Planned Parenthood to FUND
http://freedomoutpost.com/columbia-university-students-support-female-genital-mutilation-want-planned-parenthood-to-fund/
Patterns of Opioid Use for Chronic Non-Cancer Pain in the Veterans Health Administration from 2009 to 2011
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4252255/
The Grapevine
The Stress Of Severe Pain: 11% Of Americans Suffer From Chronic Pain,
http://www.medicaldaily.com/stress-severe-pain-11-americans-suffer-chronic-pain-nih-states-347292
Chronic pain epidemiology and its clinical relevance
http://bja.oxfordjournals.org/content/111/1/13.long
NO CONNECTION TO PAIN MEDS
ADDICTION https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2015/6/12/there-is-no-epidemic-of-painkiller-overdoses
On Assisted Suicide, Going Beyond ‘Do No Harm’
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/05/opinion/on-assisted-suicide-going-beyond-do-no-harm.html?_r=0
DEA WAR ON DRS
http://www.federaljack.com/is-the-%E2%80%9Cwar-on-drugs%E2%80%9D-as-phony-as-the-%E2%80%9Cwar-on-terror%E2%80%9D/
Chronic health conditions
http://www.nationalhealthcouncil.org/sites/default/files/NHC_Files/Pdf_Files/AboutChronicDisease.pdf
Pain Management
https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2016/1/5/the-cdc-and-profit-driven- drug-testing
Colorado prosecutor: Marijuana-related murders are skyrocketing
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/06/colorado_prosecutor_marijuanarelated_murders_are_skyrocketing.html
Are CDC Opioid Guidelines Causing More Suicides?
https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2016/5/27/are-cdcs-opioid-guidelines-causing-more-suicides
NASCAR Legend’s Chronic Pain Led to Suicide
http://nationalpainreport.com/nascar-legends-chronic-pain-led-to-suicide-8819960.html
Opioid Malfeasance At The CDC- Guess Who Is Getting Hurt?
http://www.acsh.org/news/2016/12/05/opioid-malfeasance-cdc-guess-who-getting-hurt-10531
Chronic Pain and the Death of a New York Times Journalist
The CDC reports there are 44 deaths per day that involve opioids, but there are more than 105 deaths per day from suicide. An undoubtedly significant (but uncertain) number of those suicides can be attributed to people with severe pain.
http://thepainfultruthbook.com/2016/03/chronic-pain-and-the-death-of-a-new-york-times-journalist/
The Connection Between Chronic Pain and Suicide
http://www.spine-health.com/blog/connection-between-chronic-pain-and-suicide
Chronic Pain and the Risk of Suicide | Psychology Today
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/nation-in-pain/201511/chronic-pain-and-the-risk-suicide
One in 10 suicides linked to chronic illness, study finds
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2011/aug/23/suicide-chronic-illness-study
Chronic Pain Patient Abandoned by Doctor Dies
https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2016/12/22/chronic-pain-patient-abandoned-by-doctor-dies
http://www.pharmaciststeve.com/?p=18350
Major Insurance Company’s Payment Decision Angers ER Doctors
http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/major-insurance-company-s-payment-decision-angers-er-doctors-n767766
Drug rebates reward industry players — and often hurt patients
http://www.salon.com/2017/06/03/drug-rebates-reward-industry-players-and-often-hurt-patients_partner/
Ky. ambulance service accused of lying to get payments from Medicare, Medicaid
http://www.kentucky.com/news/state/article154020399.html
Insurance companies duck Obamacare repeal fight
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/03/trump-health-care-bill-insurance-companies-239081
Opioid crisis: Pain patients pushed to the brink
http://www.bendbulletin.com/topics/5342867-151/opioid-crisis-pain-patients-pushed-to-the-brink