Patients prefer INDEPENDENT PHARMACIES over chains

Posted on August 21, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve

Consumers like their pharmacies, but CVS trails rivals in survey https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/consumers-like-their-pharmacies-but-cvs-trails-rivals-in-survey/561314/ Dive Brief: As disruptors like Amazon threaten to upend the business, the pharmacy industry still yields high levels of customer satisfaction in both brick-and-mortar and mail order segments, according to a J.D. Power survey. Almost nine out of ten consumers prefer face-to-face interaction with their […]

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Has the “illegal fentanyl OD’s” causing a shift in “drug of choice” to be abused ?

Posted on August 21, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve

DEA warns of national methamphetamine comeback https://www.abc12.com/content/news/557138522.html As the opioid epidemic swells in the United States, there’s another deadly drug that’s making a comeback. “We’re talking super labs,” said former Drug Enforcement Administration Agent Kevin Hartmann. “Super labs that can produce multi hundred kilograms of methamphetamine.” In 2005, Congress passed the Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act […]

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New Survey Data Confirm That Opioid Deaths Do Not Correlate With Pain Pill Abuse or Addiction Rates

Posted on August 21, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve

New Survey Data Confirm That Opioid Deaths Do Not Correlate With Pain Pill Abuse or Addiction Rates www.reason.com/2019/08/21/new-survey-data-confirm-that-opioid-deaths-do-not-correlate-with-pain-pill-abuse-or-addiction-rates/#comment-7904072 New data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) provide further evidence to support a counterintuitive conclusion: The dramatic increase in deaths involving prescription analgesics since 2000 cannot be explained by a dramatic increase […]

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