Filed under: General Problems | Leave a Comment »
A failure to UNITE !
Posted on November 10, 2016 by Pharmaciststeve
Failure … let me count the ways ! Yesterday I posted the above opinion piece… and it did not make everyone happy.. I didn’t expect it to make everyone happy ! This is my FIFTH YEAR in posting on this blog and I have watched “advocates” come and go… They apparently came looking for answers […]
Filed under: General Problems | 8 Comments »
Pharmacist caused ROBBER to be charged with “trafficking” ?
Posted on November 10, 2016 by Pharmaciststeve
Blame the pharmacist for giving accused Agawam robber so many pills, defense lawyer says http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2016/11/dont_blame_the_pharmacist_for.html SPRINGFIELD — A defense lawyer for a man accused of trafficking in a prescription painkiller argued Monday her client never should have been accused of having “trafficking weight” of the drug he is alleged to have stolen from an Agawam […]
Filed under: General Problems | 2 Comments »
Louisville gray market for diabetic strips has pharmacists concerned
Posted on November 10, 2016 by Pharmaciststeve
Louisville gray market for diabetic strips has pharmacists concerned http://www.wdrb.com/story/33674071/louisville-gray-market-for-diabetic-strips-has-pharmacists-concerned LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — A secondhand market for medical supplies has local pharmacists concerned about the risks to patients. Buyers have been advertising on telephone poles throughout Louisville, trying to resell diabetic testing strips online at discounted prices. The practice is not necessarily illegal, as long as […]
Filed under: General Problems | 1 Comment »
Medicaid Denial for Hep C Drugs Nearing 50% in Some States
Posted on November 10, 2016 by Pharmaciststeve
Medicaid Denial for Hep C Drugs Nearing 50% in Some States http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/854708?src=WNL_confprev_161110_MSCPEDIT&uac=75309AG SAN FRANCISCO — Medicaid programs in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania denied nearly half of all claims in recent months for direct-acting antiviral hepatitis C drugs, according to an analysis of pharmacy data presented here at the Liver Meeting 2015. The […]
Filed under: General Problems | Leave a Comment »
DEA: Better death reporting will give us more “bodies” to justify the war on drugs ?
Posted on November 10, 2016 by Pharmaciststeve
DEA seeks more accurate drug-death numbers http://www.readingeagle.com/news/article/dea-seeks-more-accurate-drug-death-numbers Reading, PA Four months after two widely distributed reports gave vastly different numbers for deaths caused by drug overdoses in Pennsylvania, the federal Drug Enforcement Administration said it has teamed with an academic agency to take drug death reporting and analysis to a new and more sophisticated level. […]
Filed under: General Problems | 3 Comments »