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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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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 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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Today is 08/21/2019.. who will not be here tomorrow 2016 in review … what killed us 2017 in review … what killed us   6775 Americans will die EVERY DAY – from various reasons 2700 people  WILL ATTEMPT SUICIDE 140 will be SUCCESSFUL – including 20 veterans 270 will die from hospital acquired antibiotic resistant […]

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Class Action LawSuit www.doctorsofcourage.org/class-action-lawsuit/ CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT Needed: Victims’ stories A law firm has shown interest in class action for chronic pain patients who have suffered damages as a result of being denied their medications by a chain pharmacy. That would be such places as CVS, Walgreens, Walmart, Rite Aid, Kaiser Permanente (HMO), or mail […]

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Prosecutors: former DEA agent Chad Scott is a liar; defense says witnesses are tainted https://www.nola.com/news/courts/article_e0071a16-c28f-11e9-8e43-e30b1d68b458.html For nearly two decades, Chad Scott helped push criminal cases through federal courtrooms as a decorated field agent for the Drug Enforcement Administration, eventually leading a multiagency task force based on the north shore, where he patrolled the heavily traveled […]

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Isn’t it about time the pts started to embarrass them ?  The post linked below… is what I am talking about… this pt’s embarrassment was posted in a local OHIO newspaper Stark has filed a complaint with the Ohio Board of Pharmacy against Walgreens’ Pharmacist, refusing to fill meds she had taken for EIGHT YEARS […]

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I was involved in a interesting conference call tonight… on the call was a person who has contacts with some of the very large law firms.  According to contacts within these law firms put it simply how law firms think…. when it comes to taking on a class action law suit… first is MONEY and […]

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Patient Horror Stories www.pbmabuses.org/horror-stories/ PBMs have very real and negative impacts on patients with cancer and our entire health care system. Read for yourself just how horrific PBMs are in the following collection of real stories. While these stories are real, we changed personal details to protect the privacy of patients.

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                https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sanduskyregister.com%2Fstory%2F201908150028%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR1TmBZegIyp6sMKmKq1_2JlUh9MEPDs_LpoxGOZKKvqK3O1XlkrQe1zlME&h=AT3pQP1_GUy39YO3VS8ta72h6LIyA2YakUQ6-CXLLZxclmnPQ6IIrbq5bbvN-29iFE3QC9voIEQ64-RWDYYYcBDdRgE1iB2c3rI20GwmPzjtEIO289qp4-mvmKqVY6CmC6JoMcGRgNlk SANDUSKY — Chronic pain patient Awna Stark used the same prescriptions, from the same doctor, at the same pharmacy, for more than eight years when the Walgreens pharmacy in Fremont suddenly ended their service to her. Stark, 45, a Sandusky resident, said the Walgreens would not […]

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