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...
Why Doctors Should be Independent
More doctors are being owned by large conglomerate clinics or hospitals. And the hospitals are in cahoots with the government, or else THEY would be reaping the attacks for insurance fraud, because that is where the fraud lies. Hospital-owned doctors are instructed to...
Doctors Are Being Taught to NOT Use Opioids for Chronic Pain
Many doctors read Medscape for information pertaining to their practice. Jan. 18, 2019, Medscape released a CME activity for practitioners entitled Opioids for Chronic Pain Better Than Placebo? First, the authors spout data from an editorial written by someone who...
The Drug Overdose Epidemic Since 1979
Hawre Jalal et al. analyzed nearly 600,000 unintentional drug overdoses over a 38-year period from 1979 to 2016 and published their results in Science Magazine. The overall mortality rate closely followed an exponential growth curve, doubling every 9 years. Of...Get Your DoC T-shirts
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