PHARMACIST STEVE

@chimerix #Badmedicine #savejosh http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/03/10/drug-company-refuses-to-give-lifesaving-medication-to-7-year-old-boy/ 7 y/o gets the meds that he needed http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/03/11/josh-hardy-will-receive-brincidofovir-after-chimerix-reverses-course/

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Pain Physicians and Pharmacists Panned by Patients in Survey http://americannewsreport.com/nationalpainreport/pain-physicians-pharmacists-panned-patients-survey-8823231.html From the article: Patients Worry about Pharmacists’ Perceptions While generally liking their current physician, respondents are uneasy about how they are perceived by pharmacists. Over half (52%) said that they are “concerned that I may be viewed as a drug addict” and 29% were concerned […]

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http://landing.newsinc.com/shared/video.html?freewheel=91002&sitesection=selatimes&VID=25702250 CVS probed in alleged loss of painkillers From the article: Officials at the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the California Board of Pharmacy told me Monday that more than 37,000 pills were apparently taken from CVS stores in Modesto, Fairfield, Dixon and Turlock. Lauren Horwood, a spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney’s office in Sacramento, […]

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Why is most/all of the PIC’s working for CVS in California … pulling all their 222 forms and other control med records ? Could it be that the DEA have moved their war on drugs from Florida to California? Maybe the DEA just needs some more  money to fund their activities.. you are aware that […]

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You know that no matter how humans tries to “fine tune” or generate more out of the same or less. Can you imagine something having more focus on the “fine tuning” and attention to detail than to a drag racer.. something that has to put out 100% for only a few seconds to be able […]

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Massive fake health and beauty supplies ring busted http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/08/justice/new-york-counterfeit-beauty-supplies/index.html The items that are involved with this… are normally relatively inexpensive products… generally things that are counterfeited tend to be high priced items – think Viagra and the like.. Does this suggest that there is virtually NOTHING that is outside the possibility of being counterfeited ? […]

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A few days ago.. I posted the following… Rumor on the street 03/06/2014 Apparently there are 6 stores in Northern CALF involved.. and reportedly there are 2900 violations in these 6 stores and the fine is $10,000 per violation.. for a total fine of – so far – $29 million. If just 6 stores are […]

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Below is a comment on this website… former “unhappy” CVS RPh? http://www.consumeraffairs.com/rx/cvs_rx.html?page=2 I was a CVS pharmacist and worked for them almost 7 years. I got fired recently. Needless to say, I was not the only one to get fired. There were many CVS pharmacists before me including my co-workers that had been fired. Did […]

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This showed up on the Indiana Pharmacists Alliance FaceBook page today Telepharmacy was a topic of conversation at the January State Board of Pharmacy meeting. A presentation was given by an Indiana pharmacist who is interested in bringing this to Indiana. Please comment and let us know how your thoughts on this. Does this fall […]

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