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I’VE BEEN THINKING about my first lecture on pharmacy automation, the life work of Dr. Kenneth N. Barker, and the autographed baseball I keep on my desk.
On August 23, 2017, I received word that hospital-pharmacy icon and dear friend, Kenneth N. Barker, passed away earlier that morning. Below is a blog I wrote upon his retirement in 2009. I have made a few edits to bring it up to date. I’ve been thinking about my first lecture on pharmacy-automation, the life work…
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Bart G, Wyman Z, Wang Q, Hodges JS, Karim R, Bart BA. Methadone and the QTc Interval: Paucity of Clinically Significant Factors in a Retrospective Cohort. J Addiction Medicine pre-publication 2017.
Large study shows torsade risk remote and ECG non-predictive in methadone maintenance. Bart G, Wyman Z, Wang Q, Hodges JS, Karim R, Bart BA. Methadone and the QTc Interval: Paucity of Clinically Significant Factors in a Retrospective Cohort. J Addiction Medicine pre-publication 2017. Dear Colleagues, Dr Bart and co-authors have examined the medical records of…
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Understanding Medical Cannabis – 1. Addiction Experts Beg Govt. to Scrap Welfare Drug Tests 2. People Who Think Punitive Measures Help Drug Addicts Have Not Seen What I have 3. Single Dose CBD Shown to Reduce Blood Pressure
1. Huffington Post: Addiction Experts Beg Government To Scrap Welfare Drug Tests Aug. 19th, 2017 Some of Australia’s foremost experts on addiction have pleaded for the federal government to scrap its controversial plan to drug test welfare recipients, saying the program’s negative impacts far outweigh its benefits and that it will further swamp an already struggling treatment…
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Safe Vaccine Debate – 1. The Dr Judy Wilyman Report 2. World Mercury Project – Hiding Vaccine Related Deaths
1. The Dr Judy Wilyman Report: Newsletter 165 Vaccination: The Removal of “Informed Consent without Coercion” in Australia 18 July 2017 Open Letter To the University of Wollongong (UOW) Academics and the concerned Australian community, The removal of “informed consent without coercion” with the mandating of 16 vaccines in government social welfare policies is a violation…
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Safe Vaccine Debate 1. WHO Faux Pas About Adverse Events & Deaths 2. Dr Judy Wilyman Report – ABC Misreporting 3. Elizabeth Hart’s Overvaccination Report: Ethics, Conflict of Interest, GSK & Meningococcal B Vaccination
1. Catherine Frompovich : The World Health Organization’s Faux Pas About Vaccine Adverse Events And Deaths –Jul. 8th, 2017 The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have maintained their VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System) since the late 1980s, almost like a post-marketing survey/analysis, since no one probably pays attention to all the adverse events reported, or…
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Benzodiazepines For Patients on Opiate Maintenance Treatment
Bakker A, Streel E. Benzodiazepine maintenance in opiate substitution treatment: Good or bad? A retrospective primary care case-note review. Journal of Psychopharmacology 2016 1-5 Dear Colleagues, Finally we have some strong evidence that prescribing benzodiazepines for patients on opiate maintenance treatment is not only safe and effective but in some cases may be obligatory, under…
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Understanding Medical Cannabis
I2P has been proactive in identifying the potential of medical cannabis as a tool for clinical pharmacists and a useful treatment for chronically ill patients – particularly the elderly prone to suffering chronic conditions characterised with an underlying common factor of inflammation. People can also buy medical cannabis or marijuana in Real CBD store. Now,…
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United in Compassion – Medical Marijuana and Dan’s Story
Editor’s Note: As most i2P subscribers would know, we carry a range of information on diverse topics, one of which is medical marijuana. i2P has been encouraging pharmacists to become engaged with medical marijuana as Cannabis Directory Australia does because of the promise of major health benefits, also a product that could impact on the…
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The Balance Tips for Better Health – Major Chemical Companies are to be Held Accountable
On December 14, 2015 i2P published an article regarding the setting up of an International Citizen’s Tribunal (titled the Monsanto Tribunal) that was designed to prosecute the crime of “ecocide” as practiced by Monsanto and associated global chemical manufacturers. While not recognised legally, it will provide a court of public opinion based on evidence and…
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The Pharmacist Advocate – Happenings in a Global Pharmacy on its way to you!
Editor’s Note: In March 2016 i2P published an article by Peter Sayers regarding the globalisation of Australian community pharmacies (read http://i2p.com.au/understanding-the-impacts-of-a-global-pharmacy-invasion/ ). We also published well before the last election that Medicare privatisation issues would became the focus of that election and that the election would be basically fought on health. Future elections are likely to keep…