And that brings us to the end of a nice wrap for the sabbath side of things looking back again in just under 30. For years i had treated patients with heroin addiction with high dose methadone which is the appropriate treatment and so i was thinking well i see how well that works for all these people and they dont tend to overdose on it or have a lot of side effects or have any problems so why wouldnt that be fine for pain patients i do recall individual young man who had a rough go early in life had some problems that all ism was in alcohol recovery a number of back surgeries and i was in the middle of a tapering course switched him over to methadone for his other drug to ease his taper and using misguided conversion tables. 3 days after i converted him i got a call from his wife that the a doctor. Was flabbergasted its not safe for people who just have chronic pain to give them opioids because they dont have the years of tolerance built up that people with heroin addiction have to re
Compared to everybody else. Temperatures in the low 60s, dropping into the 50s and all that cloud cover and you were out in San Francisco probably a couple miles away with sunshine. I mean, that is the neat part of the microclimates. We have limited cloud cover out there right now. And you can see a little bit of a breeze on ourryuiing. So if you look close to the coast, it will stay comfortable, but if you look at the planner that i put together, you can see that it gets pretty warm once again especially inland neighborhoods nearing 90, around 80 at the bay and 62 at the coast. Mid70s and mid80s by noon. So a quick warming today. Well talk more about that coming up. As this pandemic goes on, were focused on how we can build a better bay area for all of us during this time. Health is part of that, education is the another the part of it. And this morning it is back to school in oakland. But students arent going to actually be seeing very much of their teachers. Lauren martinez is expla
A year later got sued in federal court we were all all the medical directors were served in our homes current efforts to stop this overprescribing have been met with much pushback from the pharmaceutical industry they rationalized that the billions of dollars they were making were helping more people than they were hoarding they insisted and still insists today that only those who are diverting and misusing the drugs to get high are responsible for the epidemic and not those who are prescribed the drug produced distributed a follow up video to i got my life back the double down on their claims that oxycontin was a safe nonaddictive long term chronic pain relief returning to these patients off to 2 years shows that when pain treatment is successful it stays successful over the last 3 years ive gotten much much stronger is just absolutely a god thing its just such a different ive been away away. And and abels is wonderful however in time even produce own video poster children were succum
The kids had a ball we loved it. Jersey was great the people of jersey were great to us. The water by the way the water is i mean, the ocean beautiful. Drinking water in jersey still is probably my only complaint. I have to go brita or bottled. But i got this tattoo which i know that you guys showed off last week. I got a lot of neosporin on it right now. Just to keep the bacteria, thats what they say youre supposed to do but at some point well show it off and do the grand reveal. They asked me if we wanted to show it and i said no he never liked it on twitter and im not sure that he really liked it so you brought it up. I wasnt going to bring it up. To be honest with you, i came to it late i was actually trying to not even be on twitter that much and i saw it and it was too late to start retweeting because it was a day after clearly you had shown it off and i didnt realize that i had sent that picture to you but i didnt realize that everybody would get to see it this way. It was fun.
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