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Many Ordinary Meds Cause Depression; Public Trust in Pharma Hits New Low
For years, I’ve been writing about the medical system’s self-feeding mechanism:Give a patient a drug to treat his symptoms; the drug causes new symptoms, which are diagnosed as a new illness; and then new drugs are given, and those drugs cause still more symptoms, which in turn are diagnosed as a new condition…on and on…
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An Evening With Manuel Cardoso – The Man Who Helped Reform Portugal’s Drug Policy
There was a big turn-out on rainy Sydney evening for drug law reform meeting. Tuesday 5th June 2018. St Stephen’s Church, Macquarie Street, Sydney, for “An evening with Manuel Cardoso – the man who helped reform Portugal’s drug policy”. The take-home message to get through to our politicians: decriminalisation is now proven to save lives, money…
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Understanding Medical Cannabis – 1. CannabisTech: Commercialization Of Hemp-Based Bioplastics 2. The Guardian: All eyes on Canada as first G7 nation prepares to make marijuana legal 3. New Cannabis Ventures: Canadian Clinic Operator to Launch Compass Australia
1. CannabisTech: Commercialization Of Hemp-Based Bioplastics True commercialization of hemp-based plastics could be just around the corner in North America. Hemp is experiencing a revolution, its popularity as a raw material has exploded in recent years thanks to deregulation of hemp in the United States and the growing acceptance of the cannabis sativa plant family…
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The Safe Vaccine Debate – 1. Robert Kennedy’s World Mercury Project: The Big Secret The Mainstream Media Doesn’t Want To Tell You About America’s Soaring Suicide Rates 2. NVIC: The Theory of Herd Immunity Has Nothing to Do With Vaccination 3. Jon Rappoport: Europe under the vaccination gun: an expanding tragedy
1. Robert Kennedy’s World Mercury Project: The Big Secret The Mainstream Media Doesn’t Want To Tell You About America’s Soaring Suicide Rates This week two celebrity suicides rocked the nation, and neither of them seemed to make any sense. Kate Spade’s handbag designs had taken the fashion world by storm, and she was supposedly living the kind of…
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Encouragement Unleashes Potential
Thomas Edison’s teacher said he was a poor student. His mother was furious at that characterization and took him out of school and taught him at home. Edison gave this account of the incident in an interview published on Nov. 29, 1907: “One day I overheard the teacher tell the inspector that I was ‘addled’ and it…
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PSA Media Releases – 1. Exceptional pharmacists receive Queen’s Birthday Honours 2. Empowering more patients to better manage medication 3. PSA welcomes new leaders in Quality Use of Medicines
1. Exceptional pharmacists receive Queen’s Birthday Honours June 11, 2018 Pharmacists Professor Andrew McLachlan FPS and Ms Lorraine Koller were applauded by the peak national body for pharmacists, the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) today for receiving Queen’s Birthday Honours. Prof McLachlan and Ms Koller are both based in NSW and were honoured for their…
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NPS Media Releases – New Chief Executive for NPS MedicineWise
New Chief Executive for NPS MedicineWise Following an extensive search, the Board of NPS MedicineWise is delighted to announce the appointment of Mr Steve Morris as the new Chief Executive Officer of NPS MedicineWise. Since 2009, Mr Morris has held the position of Chief Pharmacist for South Australia and in 2012 was also appointed Executive Director of…
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EDITORIAL for Monday 11 June 2018
Welcome to the current edition of i2P (Information to Pharmacists) E-Magazine dated Monday 11 June 2018. Since the year 2000, i2P has been consistently exploring ideas, information and concepts in order to maintain a sense of direction for pharmacists through what has been an extremely difficult period, made doubly so by the ascendancy and power…
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A Sensible Community Pharmacy & GP Collaboration
In a win for commonsense, a professional collaboration between community pharmacists and local GP’s coupled with a simultaneous a solution for a major public health problem, a mutually respectful system has been piloted in the County of Staffordshire in the UK. And patients involved in the pilot study have documented high levels of satisfaction, simply because…
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Can we make a difference on mental health?
It’s Men’s Health Week, and I’m sure that you are aware of the shocking statistics surrounding depression in men. The reasons why men seem to be so vulnerable are debated constantly, but statistics don’t lie. We pharmacists are in a rather privileged position to help. Or, on the other hand, we can decide not to…