PHARMACIST STEVE

Employers Beware: Increased Attention to Workplace Harassment and Wellness Programs by the EEOC Coming in the New Year http://www.laboremploymentperspectives.com/2015/02/02/employers-beware-increased-attention-to-workplace-harassment-and-wellness-programs-by-the-eeoc-coming-in-the-new-year/ Newly appointed U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Chair Jenny Yang recently offered some insight into the EEOC’s areas of focus for 2015, providing employers with a preview of some of the key regulatory and enforcement […]

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Rite Aid Pharmacist Refuses To Fill Prescription For Disabled Patient http://samuel-warde.com/2015/04/rite-aid-pharmacist-refuses-to-fill-prescription-for-disabled-patient-video/ Gulfport, Mississippi: A 36-year-old disabled woman who suffers from Chiari Malformation type I, claims the pharmacist at her local Rite Aid is refusing to fill a doctor’s prescription for the drug Norcos (hydrocodone). She asked to be identified as MK. MK recorded an exchange […]

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Medical marijuana activist in Kansas arrested, son taken away after he spoke up to D.A.R.E. officer http://m.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/14/1377680/-Medical-marijuana-activist-in-Kansas-arrested-son-taken-away-after-he-spoke-up-to-D-A-R-E-officer?detail=email Shona Banda is a medical marijuana activist living in Garden City, Kansas. She suffered Crohn’s Disease for years before discovering cannabis oil helped to control her symptoms. She was so impressed with marijuana’s ability to control her symptoms […]

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Meet Joe Zorek .. a RPH with a “brass pair” Follow the “Pied Piper” … The saga continues… it would appear that the deposition stage of Joe’s trial has started… some have already been done… some are yet to be done and more have not been served their subpoena yet. There has been four lawsuits […]

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Avoiding Pharmacy Errors http://consumer.healthday.com/encyclopedia/drug-center-16/misc-drugs-news-218/avoiding-pharmacy-errors-646512.html When pharmacists are asked to work long hours under grueling pressure, mistakes happen. And although many errors are minor, some of them can be extremely grave. It was Monday, one of the busiest days of the week, and the pharmacy in South Carolina was understaffed. A pharmacist handed a mother a […]

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Walgreens’ Pessina: Don’t Think Of Us ‘As A U.S. Business’ http://www.forbes.com/sites/brucejapsen/2015/04/15/walgreens-pessina-dont-think-of-us-as-a-u-s-business/ Stefano Pessina, the Italian billionaire running Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA), said he doesn’t plan to be a “caretaker CEO” as the company closes 200 U.S. stores, searches for a permanent top executive and cuts more than $1.5 billion as part of its global expansion. Pessina, […]

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    http://www.cvsworker.com/     Welcome CVS Health Pharmacy and Distribution Center workers This website is designed for CVS employees seeking to form a Union at their workplace. The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, (IAM) is the preferred Union for representing CVS workers. The IAM is among the nation’s largest trade Union’s, representing […]

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No More Drug War: Mother Crystal Munoz doing 19 years for DEA Set Up http://www.ladybud.com/2015/04/14/mother-crystal-munoz-doing-19-years-for-dea-setup/ Marijuana users are frequently given the advice to never chat or “cooperate” with law enforcement, and there’s no better example of why not than Crystal Munoz, currently in her 7th year of incarceration on a 19 year, 10 month sentence. […]

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U.S. Hydrocodone Prescriptions Dropping http://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2015/4/14/us-hydrocodone-prescriptions-dropping By Pat Anson, Editor The number of prescriptions filled in the U.S. for hydrocodone declined in 2014, an early sign that restrictions on the widely used opioid painkiller are starting to have an impact.    According to the IMS Institute, 119.2 million prescriptions for hydrocodone pain medications were dispensed by […]

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Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) and other House Republicans on Tuesday were left aghast at testimony from the administrator of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, who said she has no authority to fire DEA agents for any reason, even when they decide to use prostitutes provided by drug cartels they’re supposed to be investigating. DEA Administrator […]

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