PHARMACIST STEVE

  We all do it. Our companies force us to. The old people cost too much and have too much vacation. The new grads cost to too much to train. So keeping the pharmacist experience level between 3 to 8 years is perfect. I will even tell you how we fire the old people. When […]

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Federal Officials Participate In New Mexico Pharmacists’ Association Meeting http://krwg.org/post/federal-officials-participate-new-mexico-pharmacists-association-meeting ALBUQUERQUE – Representatives from the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the DEA participated in the New Mexico Pharmacists’ Association’s Mid-Winter Meeting held this weekend in Albuquerque, N.M., for the purpose of educating the Association’s membership about how prescription drug trafficking and abuse contributes to New Mexico’s […]

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The Likely Cause of Addiction Has Been Discovered, and It Is Not What You Think The new evidence will force us to change ourselves. http://www.alternet.org/drugs/likely-cause-addiction-has-been-discovered-and-it-not-what-you-think It is now one hundred years since drugs were first banned – and all through this long century of waging war on drugs, we have been told a story about […]

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http://www.wjhg.com/home/headlines/Florida-Doctors-Learn-How-To-Combat-the-Prescription-Pill-Epidemic-289690351.html Imagine that.. you interview a former DEA staffer (Mr Stutman)  whose business According to this,  is in the business of selling fear of drug abuse Mr. Stuttman left the DEA in 1990 to found Employee Information Services, Inc., the nation’s largest management consulting firm specializing in the design and implementation of substance abuse prevention […]

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Some lawmakers are concerned that the science isn’t there yet to prove cannabis oil really works. Others have reservations about passing something that Congress still deems illegal. I am concerned that some people that have brains.. there isn’t any real proof that there is any intelligence there 🙁

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NPs Gain Ground in Turf War http://www.medpagetoday.com/PracticeManagement/PracticeManagement/49648?xid=nl_mpt_DHE_2015-01-22&utm_content=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DailyHeadlines&utm_source=ST&eun=g578717d0r& As of Jan. 1, 2015, nurse practitioners (NPs) in New York who have more than 3,600 hours of clinical experience are no longer required to submit patient charts for review to “collaborative” physicians. “NPs are no longer tethered to a physician who may or may not have anything […]

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New police radars can ‘see’ inside homes http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/01/19/police-radar-see-through-walls/22007615/ WASHINGTON — At least 50 U.S. law enforcement agencies have secretly equipped their officers with radar devices that allow them to effectively peer through the walls of houses to see whether anyone is inside, a practice raising new concerns about the extent of government surveillance. Those agencies, […]

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What’s to say that this year’s still unsettled Aetna/Coventry Part D snafu won’t be repeated in the 2016 plan year? What assurances should patients have that the Medicare Plan Finder, the government’s plan cost and pharmacy access comparison tool, contains accurate information? Should patients—and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services—just assume that plan sponsors […]

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Needle Phobic Pharmacist Wins $2.6M Verdict Against Rite Aid http://www.law360.com/articles/614532/needle-phobic-pharmacist-wins-2-6m-verdict-against-rite-aid Law360, New York (January 23, 2015, 7:35 PM ET) — A New York federal jury on Thursday awarded $2.6 million to a former Rite Aid pharmacist who said the company fired him because a needle phobia prevented him from giving flu vaccination shots. The jury […]

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CVS Health Research Institute Provides More Evidence that Broader Prescription Drug Coverage Improves Health Outcomes http://insurancenewsnet.com/oarticle/2015/01/23/cvs-health-research-institute-provides-more-evidence-that-broader-prescription-d-a-586897.html#.VMLlIS7G-1w Many public and private insurers are taking steps to control rising health care costs. For example, some state Medicaid programs in recent years have enacted prescription drug restrictions by placing caps or limits on the number of prescriptions a […]

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