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CVS probed in alleged loss of painkillers
From the article:
Officials at the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the California Board of Pharmacy told me Monday that more than 37,000 pills were apparently taken from CVS stores in Modesto, Fairfield, Dixon and Turlock.
Lauren Horwood, a spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney’s office in Sacramento, said CVS faces 2,973 possible violations of the federal Controlled Substances Act for alleged discrepancies between the company’s records and its inventory of prescription drugs.
In some cases, the drugs have gone missing because pharmacists “self-medicate,” they said. But in most cases, the officials said, lower-level pharmacy workers, such as technicians, have made off with the drugs and then sold them to others.
Glaudel said DEA investigators went over records for other CVS stores in the area and found more than 16,000 hydrocodone tablets missing from the Turlock store, 11,000 from the Fairfield store and almost 5,000 each from the Modesto and Dixon stores.Michael DeAngelis, a CVS spokesman, said the investigations are aimed at “assuring compliance with state and federal requirements for administrative record keeping related to invoices and inventory for controlled substances.”
Isn’t it amazing… when it comes to reporting INCOME… CVS has no problems in recording keeping… it is just those pesty control drugs.. they just can’t seem to keep track of.
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