What About Us? Innocent Victims of the Opioid Crisis

Posted on July 24, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve

MSNewsNow.com – Jackson, MS http://www.msnewsnow.com/story/38346875/what-about-us-innocent-victims-of-the-opioid-crisis JACKSON, MS (Mississippi News Now) – Mississippi leads the nation in the number of opioid prescriptions written. In 2016, there were 560 opioid deaths here and the National Institute on Drug Abuse reports more than 115 people in the United States die every day after overdosing on opioids.  It’s these […]

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“Pharmacists do have the right to refuse to fill prescriptions, but it has to be for a legitimate medical reason,”

Posted on July 24, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve

Can pharmacists deny medications in Arizona? It depends https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2018/07/24/can-pharmacy-refuse-fill-prescriptions-arizona/823305002/ In recent weeks, two people were denied medications at Arizona pharmacies, bringing attention to laws that govern when and why pharmacists can refuse to fill prescriptions. Hilde Hall, a transgender woman, said last week that a pharmacist at CVS in Fountain Hills refused to fill a […]

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