Nabil Jabbour, MD, Greensburg PA
Nabil Jabbour, MD, 69, a family practice physician with addiction-medicine practices in Greensburg and Connellsville, PA was sentenced Dec 10, 2020 to 1 year and 1 day in federal prison for doing his job. Dr. Jabbour was authorized by law to prescribe buprenorphine in...
The MORE Act of 2019
“Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act of 2019” The More Act passed the House Dec 4, 2020. There appears to be a lot of misunderstanding in the CPP community as to what this bill can do for them if it could just be passed into law. I will try to...
Systemic Racism in Pain Management
On November 6, 2020, an article by Malini Ghoshal, Hanna Shapiro, Knox Todd, and Michael E. Schatman was published in the Journal of Pain Research. In the article, they point out the blatant discrimination against Blacks, Indians, and People of Color (BIPOC) who seek...
States Are Decriminalizing Drugs
This is the wave we need to use in our fight. We need to accept the fact that pain patients won’t work together, and use other organizations to get the job done. The current wave of acceptance of marijuana and cannabis is one such wave. This election, Oregon passed...
PDMPs Part 3: Using Analytics to Attack Doctors
Data analytics companies are growing in the business market. It has become quite competitive. One thing I’ve noticed about the two main companies focusing on heath records and data is that they are registered as 501 (c)(3) nonprofits. I personally don’t see how...
PDMPs, Part 2: Do You Know Your Narx Score?
So do you know your Narx Score? First, what is the Narx Score? How did it come about? In 2011, a company in Louisville, KY—Appriss—had their first meeting to begin the development of the analytics of PDMP data creating the Narx Score. The Narx Score is a numeric...
PDMPs, Part 1: Are They Helpful or Harmful?
What is the PDMP? PDMP stands for Prescription Drug Monitoring Program. PDMPs collect, monitor and analyze prescribing and dispensing data submitted by pharmacies and practitioners dispensing controlled drugs from their offices. The idea behind it was to help in...
Response to Purdue Pharma’s Plea
Yesterday, my visceral tweet on Purdue’s prosecution ignored a much bigger problem—the problem of using the gun of prosecution to solve a medical problem. Prosecution for prescribing opiate is to let ironsmith set a fracture with a hammer! Stop sacrificial lambs. MD’s...
Steven K. Mangar, MD Case Finally Resolved
Steven Keith Mangar, MD, 50, a Stanford graduate in anesthesiology and pain management, from Salinas, California finally has some resolution of his 5 year old attack by our rogue government. I originally wrote a post on him in June, 2016, in the 3rd month of...Get Your DoC T-shirts
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