Meet The Bureaucratic Roadblock Behind New Restrictive Painkiller Rules

Posted on December 18, 2016 by Pharmaciststeve

Meet The Bureaucratic Roadblock Behind New Restrictive Painkiller Rules www.disabledveterans.org/2015/02/20/meet-bureaucratic-roadblock-behind-new-restrictive-painkiller-rules/ New federal rules governing narcotic painkiller prescriptions have taken a toll on countless thousands of veterans relying on them to treat pain from missing limbs and other conditions. Over the past six months, many veterans have written me about problems they experienced getting refills for their […]

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State’s bureaucrats IGNORE suspicious drug order reports then blames wholesalers for opiate epidemic

Posted on December 18, 2016 by Pharmaciststeve

‘Suspicious’ drug order rules never enforced by state   http://www.wvgazettemail.com/news-health/20161218/suspicious-drug-order-rules-never-enforced-by-state#sthash.UemaFxQ2.dpuf Tucked in the West Virginia Code of State Rules, you’ll find a three-sentence regulation designed to keep in check the flow of prescription pills into the state. The rule directs wholesale distributors to set up systems to identify “suspicious” orders for highly addictive narcotics. It […]

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