Insulin In Canada cost 10% of the USA price… Insurance/PBM industry is the reason but the Pharma industry gets the blame

Posted on July 15, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve

Family says 21-year-old son died rationing insulin https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/breaking-the-news/family-says-21-year-old-son-died-rationing-insulin/89-d451a01b-9170-4341-9010-155cb87edccc The price of insulin is costing some people who can’t afford it their lives. RAMSEY, Minn. — Advocates say it is a sign of the growing problem of rising prescription costs in America. Friday, friends and family said 21-year-old Jesimya David Scherer-Radcliff died as a result of […]

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Our society discourages proper treatment of pain and mental health… which disease state is next ?

Posted on July 15, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve

How Did We Come to Abandon America’s Pain Patients? https://filtermag.org/2019/07/15/abandon-americas-pain-patients/amp/ Overdoses—not those involving prescription opioids, but of heroin and illicit fentanyl, often combined with benzodiazepines—continue to go up. But opioid prescribing continues to go down. Pain patients are untreated and suffering. Pharmaceutical companies are being sued and settling. Law enforcement is cracking down on providers. […]

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Retail Pharmacist Beware

Posted on July 15, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve

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DEATH on the Battlefield is Preferable

Posted on July 15, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve

DEATH on the Battlefield is Preferable

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