I lost a dear friend to an overdose of Oxycontin . This drug was prescribed to him by his dentist after a tooth extraction. Zohydro is a much stronger version of Oxycontin. With the addictive quality of this drug and its supper strength, the death rate due to prescription drug overdose will increase.

THIS ILLNESS HAS HAD A LABEL ON IT SINCE I FOUND OUT WHAT IT WAS and how people viewed a person who is (crazy, insane) but can be helped by medication and counseling. Taboo, is the forbidden to exist or a dark secret. It's affection on the American Black People is gong unnoticed and un treated which is doomed by shame. Voices have to be heard and loudly to make others listen to the hearts of our people who struggle daily just "to be normal". Hope this opens the eyes of many and involves more than a few.

We the people, of the state of Tennessee, believe regulation, concerning marijuana for medical purposes, shall be available to all qualifying patients with a debilitating medical condition and that the enactment of the Patient's Choice Act of 2014, should establish laws, governing the act and a secure and confidential patient registry to fulfill such law.

Healthcare needs more provider options to lower cost and increase access. Pharmacist can be a positive disruptive force in lowering cost and increasing access now.

I've been personally affected, starting at age 19, when I had my first panic attack, and my boyfriend took me to Kaiser Permanente (where I had insurance), allegedly just to talk to a counselor about my family problems. Instead, they packed me in an ambulance that took me to a psych ward several miles away, where I was abused and nearly killed, and quite possibly raped. I was literally drugged, dressed in only a backless sheath, shackled to a gurney, and left hidden behind a partition, surrounded by six or seven derelict men, and when I awoke, my struggling shrugged the sheath off, and left me there naked, a tiny girl, under the lustful gaze of bedraggled lsd-addled men. What was most terrifying was the knowledge that the nurses did this to me ON PURPOSE, and the young male intern who kept coming over to check on me, every minute, did NOTHING to help me. He just kept saying he was my lover, Davit, and I should get the name straight. Absolutely horrifying insanity, what these so-called professional caregivers did to me that night. I was left that way, naked, for a half-hour before a female doctor marched off the elevator headed straight for me with an angry look on her face, as I'd obviously interrupted her romantic dinner. She wore a crimson silk dress that clung to her body, she was a beautiful Asian woman, but there was nothing beautiful about her as she jabbed me with a needle and filled me with drugs so toxic they left me paralyzed with anaphylactic shock and on the verge of death for the rest of the night. Then in the morning, when I miraculously awoke, the nurses laughed at me when I couldn't move a single muscle and had to scream for help through clenched teeth. They laughed again when they gave me only a tiny dixie cup of water, when they knew damned well that I was literally dying of thirst. The sick games psychiatric staff play with their patients. They're truly the sickest people I've ever met. I know some of you will think this is very funny, and it's the way to go, the way to treat Americans who get out-of-hand politically. The Rebels and protestors, anyone who doesn't hup-to your agenda. But it comes back to bite you in the arse sooner or later. One way or another. Especially today, when everybody knows somebody who's been abused by the system. The peasants will revolt. And there's more of them than there are of you, and I don't care what fancy high-tech weapons you have, that can all be turned against you. Robotize humanity and mind control us, and you'll be creating your own worst nightmare, as those mind controlled robotized people... come after you, and robots don't care about dying or suffering. If they're programmed to kill, they will just want to kill. Another world is possible: we pull together to meet the challenges of the future. The Congress stops trying to cull us by spraying us like bugs and poison us like the Borgias, and stop sterilizing us like Rockefeller eugenics doktors. Though you've successfully dumbed-down the masses, there are still plenty of well-educated and creative people to help create solutions to our country's problems, and we will do it, whether your lot are with us or against us. Even if we have to fight you every step of the way, we will solve our own problems, and we'll do it way better than you ever could.

Even if you go to an emergency room for a hospital that is in your health-insurance network, you may be held personally responsible to pay bills from subcontracted doctors. These doctors have no obligation to accept the payment terms stipulated under the hospital's group contract with your insurer. They can bill you for balances that exceed the reasonable and customary charges paid to them by your insurer -- and the sky is the limit as to how much these doctors decide you owe!

The Affordable Care Act extends health care coverage by allowing more Americans to qualify for Medicaid, but the Supreme Court has ruled that states can choose to reject this expansion. Georgia has declined the federal funding, because Republican politicians like Gov. Nathan Deal hate Obamacare. As a direct result, four Georgia hospitals have shut down. These hospitals primarily served rural poor communities, where a closure is devastating. Sign our petition to Gov. Nathan Deal, demanding that Georiga accept the Medicaid expansion—putting the health care of his constituents above partisan politics.

Arizona SB1154 will allow physical therapists to practice acupuncture with barely any training, leading to potential injury by ignoring the required Sunrise process for increasing their scope of practice. The bill allows physical therapists to take a weekend course and set their own standards, while ignoring public safety. “Dry Needling” is acupuncture and as such is already regulated by the State of Arizona.

This is to support Tom Albright who posted recently: Our house burned to the ground two days ago. Nobody hurt. All of my factor 9 was destroyed in the fire. I have two joint bleeds with no access to factor 9 to stop the bleeding. Two days of pain in those joints so far. I won't be able to take factor 9 for a few days thanks to Accredo.

To let congress know what is really happening to the working, struggling, lower wage people of the U.S. since Obama Care was passed. My employers and most employers have dramatically reduced hours we are able to work to avoid paying healthcare costs for their employees. This is real. I am a real single mother who works to support my child with an absent father who fails to pay child support court ordered. I was making good money working 40- 45 hours a week. My hours were reduced to 20. I sought better employment with a large corporate National employer and recently all newer employee hours have been deliberately cut to 12 a week. How am I supposed to live on taxed minimum wage and pay for Obama Care?

Its bad enough that we are sending many of our jobs to China, we should not put our health to the side to allow chickens from China. A short time ago, China had an outbreak of H7N9, the latest in a string of "bird flus" that have struck the country. The disease, which the World Health Organization describes as an "unusually dangerous virus for humans," is directly connected to poultry farming. China refused to take our beef when the mad cow disease had occurred and has since not allowed beef from America. We need to take care of our health, or jobs, our country.

I know many people who would benefit from some form of medicinal marijuana, from my father, who died of cancer a handful of years ago, and suffered greatly during chemo and radiation treatments, suffering that could have been alleviated by marijuana; to a niece of mine who suffers from dozens of seizures per week, to another friend who has to leave the workforce due to debilitating migraine headaches. So much suffering that can be at least partially mitigated, by a simple stroke of the pen.