PHARMACIST STEVE

It is best if people get their flu shot the last of Sept – first of Oct… Flu season typically doesn’t start showing up until Nov and it takes two weeks post shot for blood titters to get to sufficient blood levels.  At some time after that point, blood titters start to fade and “flu […]

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Someone shared this blog hyperlink ( https://youarewithinthenorms.com/ ) with me… it would appear that it has been around for about two years…  I have only read a few posts but definitive whoever is contributing to this blog… has NO USE FOR THE DEA and that breed of pharmacists who believes that they have the instilled […]

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This is how clueless this administration is about the price of medication.  The graphic at the bottom of this post demonstrates where the BULK of money the pt pays at the counter really goes to…  Over the last few years the major PBM middlemen have been bought/merged/acquired by insurance companies. So the middle of that […]

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CVS Urges SCOTUS to Bar HIV/AIDS Patients’ Disability Bias Suit https://consumerwatchdog.org/news-story/hiv-bias-suit-against-cvs-tests-bounds-obamacare-protections Californians with HIV and AIDS are taking on their drug plan middleman in a fight over how they get the medications they need to survive. Their proposed class action against CVS Caremark—green-lighted by a federal appeals court last month—is testing the bounds of the […]

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West Virginia AG sues Biden admin over border policy reversal tied to ‘devastating’ fentanyl flow https://www.foxnews.com/politics/west-virginia-ag-sues-biden-admin-border-policy-reversal-fentanyl-flow West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey is suing the Biden administration over a key immigration policy reversal he says has fueled a “devastating” flow in the deadly drug fentanyl. The state is suing over the reversal of the Trump-era […]

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The media has reported over and over again for the last week or so that the war in Afghanistan has been our LONGEST WAR… does that mean that the WAR ON DRUGS…. is not really a WAR ?  The CDC routinely comes up with a “death count” from the war on drugs and we know […]

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Afghan Shock on Healthcare https://daily-remedy.com/afghan-shock-on-healthcare We often explain chaos theory through the butterfly effect, which states a small change can have large consequences later. Something appearing small and insignificant somewhere or in some point in time can prove immensely consequential later or somewhere else. We have movies about it. We often reference it casually. But […]

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 It would appear that “BIG DATA” will amass data from just about any place and sell it to anyone and apparently no one seems to validate the data being put into the database and the entity buying the data presumes that the data they have purchased is valid and/or has been validated.  Apparently there is […]

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When you look at who was on this CDC committee and their medical qualifications… and they knew or should have known that the VA Hospital system and the DEA had the intention to take these opiate dosing guidelines a lot farther and just guideline.  Those two entities using their ability to coerce medical professionals to […]

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Looks like the NY AG is attempting to close down the pharmas that produce opiate medications.  All FDA approved medication is done so via a (NDA) new drug application…  and it is not clear if the pharma that has a NDA on a medication has a liability tail , even if they are no longer […]

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