PHARMACIST STEVE

the spyware just following “controlled substances” recording every pill you take the rest of your life has failed to reduce the overdose deaths and now being used to deny patients their pain modulating medications for having a phony “overdose risk”. Heroin addicts die from mulit-drug overdose only one per 500,000 die from overdose taking prescription […]

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Tracking every signal pain pain in the US is now being used to deny patients medicines based on an artificial “overdose dose risk score” normed on Heroin addicts using secret algorithms – not appropriate for the regular painful disease patient but interfering with the doctor patient relationships just the same. This is wrong and probably […]

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Hi  I’m from Arkansas. I came to visit my daughter & grandchildren October 28th not realizing I had a broken hip (right) I had fallen the day before I left for Florida & went to the ER X- Rays showed no break so i came to Florida. On November 14th I bent over & felt […]

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VA study uncovers critical link between pain intensity and suicide attempts https://www.blogs.va.gov/VAntage/67708/va-study-uncovers-link-pain-intensity-suicide-attempts/ Many factors are associated with suicide risk. These factors range from PTSD, depression and anxiety disorder to financial and interpersonal concerns to access to opioids and other lethal means, like firearms. Even when we take these risk factors into consideration, moderate to severe […]

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For numerous years the DEA has “forced/persuaded” the pharmacy wholesalers to RATION controlled substances that a community pharmacy can purchase.  That rationing is based on a PERCENT of all the Rx meds that a particular pharmacy purchases… I have seen rates of 15%-20% being thrown out as the limit of controls that a pharmacy can […]

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Hello Steven I was very impressed with the article that I just read .  I am having that problem with a Walgreens store located in Indialantic Florida 32903 Highway A1A and Paradise Boulevard. I have been using that Walgreens store where I have been filling my chronic pain medicine hydromorphone (4 mg) for the past […]

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As a retail pharmacist for 18 yrs with a massive company. I would highly recommend that anyone who can, transfer their prescriptions to a local independent pharmacy The brick and mortar chains are cheating customers and employees, while earning a windfall of cash for the executives only. Every store is understaffed, techs are underpaid. Pharmacists […]

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I have always had a concern about mail order pharmacies.. first of all… all medications have temp storage requirement typically in the mid-50’s to mid-70’s. These storage requirements have to be met by the pharma, wholesaler & the pharmacy.  But, when a pharmacy hands off a packaging of Rx meds to a delivery service… NO […]

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