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Teen can’t get chemotherapy drug due to CVS issue http://www.wowt.com/home/headlines/Teen-Cant-Get-Chemotheraphy-Drug-Due-To-CVS-Issue-366368741.html?ref=741 An Iowa family is furious. Their daughter is battling cancer. She is on a very strict drug maintenance program. When they went to pick up her chemotherapy drugs, they ran into one hurdle after another. “She asked me if she was going to die. That […]
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Lawsuit: CVS ‘Knowingly and Intentionally’ Overcharging Customers http://www.newsweek.com/lawsuit-cvs-knowingly-and-intentionally-overcharging-customers-359060 A lawsuit claims that CVS Pharmacy has been overcharging insured customers for generic medications, whereas uninsured people paying cash up front aren’t shelling out as much. The California suit, filed Thursday by seven disgruntled U.S. customers, claims that CVS has been “knowingly and intentionally” overcharging people with […]
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Cigna temporarily banned from new Medicare plans http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2016/01/22/cigna-medicare-sanctions/79160738/ U.S. regulators have temporarily banned health insurer Cigna from offering certain Medicare plans to new patients after a probe uncovered issues with current offerings. The insurer disclosed late Thursday in a public filing that the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), had suspended the company from enrolling new […]
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CDC Over-Counted Opioid Overdoses http://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2016/1/23/cdc-over-counted-opioid-overdose-deaths#commenting The conclusion of the report was the same message the CDC has been promoting (as it has been tasked with by the White House) — to reduce the prescribing of opioids. Do you think that this administration/White House/President Obama… is encouraging all Federal agencies to violate the Americans with Disabilities […]
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Few Ohio pharmacies sell Narcan without a prescription after state law widens access http://www.wcpo.com/news/insider/few-ohio-pharmacies-sell-narcan-without-a-prescription-after-ohio-law-widens-access CINCINNATI — Even though it’s now legal for heroin addicts and their families to buy Naloxone in Ohio without a prescription, many customers are hard-pressed to find pharmacies equipped to sell it. But there are signs that could change soon. “I probably talk […]
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D.E.A. Effort to Curb Painkiller Abuse Falls Short at Pharmacies http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/11/us/dea-effort-to-curb-painkiller-abuse-falls-short-at-pharmacies.html?mwrsm=Email&_r=1 When the Drug Enforcement Administration announced last year that pharmacies nationwide could accept and destroy customers’ unwanted prescription drugs, experts in substance abuse called it a significant step toward easing the painkiller and heroin epidemic. One year later, however, the response has been insignificant, […]
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DEA: More Meth, Heroine Seized In Arizona In 2015 http://kjzz.org/content/255043/dea-more-meth-heroine-seized-arizona-2015 The flow of drugs across the Arizona-Mexico border is a constant battle for drug enforcement officials, but, which drugs are bring trafficked into the country are always changing. Right now, those drugs are meth and heroine, according to statistics provided by the Drug Enforcement Administration. […]
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With this huge snow storm over a large portion of the east side of our country.. is going to impact deliveries to some pharmacies and could even cause some pharmacies not to be open because of the weather. In some areas there is forecast to have blizzard conditions… which means some roads are going to […]
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http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/prosecutors-say-shore-medical-pharmacist-stole-morphine-replaced-it-with/article_1f242ce6-c08e-11e5-b80c-af6d4b9d1d03.html Prosecutors say Shore Medical pharmacist stole morphine, replaced it with saline If anyone should be the most educated about the consequences of abusing medications… a Pharmacist should be high on that list… but .. apparently this particular Pharmacist’s mental health disease of addictive personality disorder has a much larger impact on his life than […]
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