PHARMACIST STEVE

Abuse-Deterrent OxyContin Tied to Spike in Hepatitis C https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/908645 The introduction of abuse-deterrent OxyContin in 2010 may have played a key role in the rapid increase in hepatitis C infections because some drug abusers switched from the prescription opioid to injectable heroin, new research suggests While hepatitis C infection rates increased broadly across the United […]

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‘Extreme’ Opioid Use And Doctor Shopping Still Plague Medicare http://www.wnpr.org/post/extreme-opioid-use-and-doctor-shopping-still-plague-medicare In Washington, D.C., a Medicare beneficiary filled prescriptions for 2,330 pills of oxycodone, hydromorphone and morphine in a single month last year – written by just one of the 42 health providers who prescribed the person such drugs. In Illinois, a different Medicare enrollee received […]

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Limiting opioid prescriptions will do little to reduce overdose deaths, study says https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/02/01/limiting-opioid-prescriptions-will-little-reduce-overdose-deaths-study-says/DX9nHWdUWaLcP4DjdgLafJ/story.html When the death toll from opioid overdoses began to soar a few years ago, the evidence was clear how it all started: Painkiller prescriptions had tripled in a decade, exposing millions of people to the risk of addiction. Policy makers naturally sought […]

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                      Is it worse staff or the cutting of budget and staffing of stores just continues to get worse! It is a corporate issue not a pharmacy issue which is just as stressful on the staff trying to work under these ridiculous conditions! Someone at […]

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Retail-induced panic attack?!! https://www.reddit.com/r/pharmacy/comments/alyudx/retailinduced_panic_attack/ So this just happened today. Throwaway. A pharmacist from my local Chocolate-Vanilla-Strawberry dispensary went into a full blown panic attack and was literally forced by the store manager to shut the pharmacy down mid-shift! The pharmacy was egregiously understaffed with just 2 techs. Normally there’d be at least 5-6 techs as […]

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Combating the opioid crisis one doctor at a time https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/combating-the-opioid-crisis-one-doctor-at-a-time/2019/02/01/9d11c1a0-1a71-11e9-8813-cb9dec761e73_story.html GLENSIDE, Pa. — Sandeep “Sonny” Bains pulled up to Lyons Family Medicine in the pre-dawn dark armed with coffee, doughnuts and glossy brochures about pain treatments. “What can I help you with for acute pain?” he inquired of ­father-and-son primary-care doctors Michael and Zachary Lyons […]

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