Purdue Pharma has to help pay for treatment of abuse of ILLEGAL SUBSTANCES ?

Posted on August 1, 2017 by Pharmaciststeve

Pharma company settles lawsuit in Canada preventing further action on opioid crisis www.rumblenews.net/pharma-companies-lawsuits-opioid-crisis/ Pharmaceutical company Purdue, which produces the prescription drug OxyContin that is causing widespread overdoses in Canada and the US, are on the verge of a settlement with provincial governments which could bar any further action from being taken against them in combating the […]

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Blue Cross determines ADDICTION by the number of LEGAL RXS beneficiaries filled ?

Posted on August 1, 2017 by Pharmaciststeve

Opioid addiction quintupled since 2010 and 10 other findings in new study http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2017/07/opioid_addiction_rate_has_quin.html An estimated 8.3 of every 1,000 Blue Cross Blue Shield members were diagnosed with “opioid use disorder” in 2016, five times the rate in 2010, according to a Blue Cross Blue Shield Association study released this week. The report, “America’s Opioid Epidemic and […]

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2017 NATIONAL PHARMACY TECHNICIAN REGULATION SCORECARDS

Posted on August 1, 2017 by Pharmaciststeve

2017 NATIONAL PHARMACY TECHNICIAN REGULATION SCORECARDS https://emilyjerryfoundation.org/   The map on the hyperlink page is interactive… Pharmacists are required more and more to rely on the support of technicians. But some states have seemingly placed very little necessity that the “technicians” who is assisting the Pharmacists to have any education or proper training.  Only FIVE […]

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