DEA says it Won’t Prohibit Cannabis Stems, Seeds for Product Use, Sale

Posted on June 3, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve

www.mgretailer.com/dea-says-it-wont-prohibit-cannabis-stems-seeds-for-product-use-sale/ WASHINGTON D.C. –The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) on May 22 issued an internal directive that apparently acknowledges some cannabis products are not currently prohibited under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) and that specific parts of cannabis plants are not prohibited for use under current policy. According to the directive, the DEA’s enforcement policy is […]

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DEA: Foreign fentanyl a greater risk that diverted pills

Posted on June 3, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve

http://www.dailyitem.com/news/local_news/dea-foreign-fentanyl-a-greater-risk-that-diverted-pills/article_cf376e6e-da2b-577f-b8fa-a6ce4abcf030.html Fentanyl manufactured in foreign countries and smuggled into the U.S. poses the greater risk compared to the medication illegally diverted by patients and doctors, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration. The synthetic opioid is up to 50 times more potent than heroin and 100 times that of morphine, the DEA says. It’s increasingly cut […]

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PBM’s: your QOL/life or their bottom line profits… which gets HIGHEST PRIORITIES ?

Posted on June 3, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve

Mail-order pharmacy system delays meds for some patients http://www.dispatch.com/news/20180603/mail-order-pharmacy-system-delays-meds-for-some-patients Imagine the terror of being diagnosed with cancer. Your doctor writes a prescription that you pray will save your life. You go to the hospital or oncology clinic’s in-house pharmacy. The medicine is right there on the shelf, but you’re told the only way your insurance […]

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Pharmacist says CVS strong-arms cancer-drug business

Posted on June 3, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve

http://www.record-courier.com/news/20180603/pharmacist-says-cvs-strong-arms-cancer-drug-business Josh Cox says that CVS will go pretty far in trying to wrest the lucrative business of filling cancer prescriptions away from oncology clinics. The company, which operates a retail pharmacy chain and manages prescription-drug payments for millions of Americans, has long sent unsolicited faxes to cancer doctors, using confidential patient information, in an […]

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CBS News Appalling Coverage

Posted on June 3, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve

This video is not only about the appalling coverage by CBS News but all major news outlets. I could just as easily of named Fox News, the Washington Post or even Andrea McCarren of WUSA Channel 9, Washington DC (another CBS affiliate) who has now blocked me on Tweeter for requesting her assistance in exposing […]

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