“unconscionable, false and deceptive sales tactics,” including wining and dining, and even flirting with, Oregon doctors.

Posted on August 5, 2015 by Pharmaciststeve

Price of Addiction: Oregon AG outlines drug-maker’s use of aggressive tactics to win over doctors http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/blog/health-care-inc/2015/08/price-of-addiction-oregon-ag-outlines-drug-makers.html When you have attorneys practicing medicine.. this is what you get… they made the determination that cancer pain is dramatically different than non-cancer pain..  All opiates are only FDA approved for cancer pain and they are all used regularly […]

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The DEA has to blame someone else — is the whole agency just plain IRRESPONSIBLE ?

Posted on August 5, 2015 by Pharmaciststeve

DEA agent: High cost of black market prescription pills leads to increase in heroin-related deaths http://theadvocate.com/news/13102586-123/dea-agent-high-cost-of In 1914 a Democratic controlled Congress passed The Harrison Narcotic Act and signed by a Democratic President Woodrow Wilson.. which took opiates out of all OTC meds and the courts determined that opiate addiction was a crime.. and threatening […]

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Teach kids to dance and they won’t become addicts ? WTF ?

Posted on August 5, 2015 by Pharmaciststeve

DEA Youth Dance program keeps kids off drugs, teaches lifelong skills http://q13fox.com/2015/08/05/dea-youth-dance-program-keeps-kids-off-drugs-teaches-lifelong-skills/ AUBURN, Wash. — “Dance like no one is watching!” You’ve heard that saying before, but what about “dance like the DEA is watching?” A new program is helping local kids stay away from drugs and explore their talents. A look inside Shaun King’s moves […]

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Local indy Pharmacy ONE-THIRD the cost of WALGREENS on Rxs ?

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County upset with jail bill for prescriptions http://www.mitchellrepublic.com/news/local/3811016-county-upset-jail-bill-prescriptions The Davison County Commission took aim at the cost of providing medical care at the Davison County Jail again Tuesday, this time targeting drug retailer Walgreens.    Commissioner Kim Weitala presented her findings to the board that showed the county spent $7,345.65 during a recent month with […]

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Pain Patients Say They Can’t Get Medicine After Crackdown On Illegal Rx Drug Trade

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Pain Patients Say They Can’t Get Medicine After Crackdown On Illegal Rx Drug Trade http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/state/pain-patients-say-they-cant-get-medicine-after-crackdown-on-illegal-rx-drug-trade_39596939 The accident happened 10 years ago when Chris Young was 35. He owned a salvage yard in Maui, Hawaii, and his employee had hoisted a junker on a machine called an excavator when the hydraulics gave out. The car fell […]

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Study: Teen Marijuana Use Has No Link To Mental Health Problems

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Study: Teen Marijuana Use Has No Link To Mental Health Problems http://dailycaller.com/2015/08/04/study-teen-marijuana-use-has-no-link-to-mental-health-problems/#ixzz3hybzYcox Chronic marijuana use as an adolescent has no link to mental or physical health problems later in life, according to a new study conducted over the past 20 years. Published by the American Physiological Association, researchers from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center […]

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an average of 7 errors happens each month at every pharmacy across the US

Posted on August 5, 2015 by Pharmaciststeve

an average of 7 errors happens each month at every pharmacy across the US There are 60+ K pharmacies.. which means that there is abt 500,000 med errors every year in the USA http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/healthcare/Getting-the-wrong-persons-medicine-at-the-pharmacy.html#gHlpwI9yGGAWbLSt.99 Giving a correctly dispensed prescription to the wrong pharmacy patient is a common error in community pharmacies. If this has never […]

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