PHARMACIST STEVE

Being a student of our bureaucracy for several decades… they never do anything directly… they never do something in a large way… they seemingly always have a hidden agenda behind what they are talking about here and now. The FDA has never had any authority of anything sold labeled as a “supplement”… Supplements are vitamins/minerals […]

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Grassley To Justice Department: Crack Down On Medicare Advantage Overbilling http://kmuw.org/post/grassley-justice-department-crack-down-medicare-advantage-overbilling Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley has asked Attorney General Loretta Lynch to tighten scrutiny of Medicare Advantage health plans suspected of overcharging the government, saying billions of tax dollars are at risk as the popular senior care program grows. In May 19 letters […]

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US Patients Turn To Online Pharmacies For Cheap Meds, But Drug Companies Say The Sites Endanger Consumers http://www.ibtimes.com/us-patients-turn-online-pharmacies-cheap-meds-drug-companies-say-sites-endanger-1932079 Consumers turn to the Internet to save money on almost everything. Whether it’s a textbook, a vacuum cleaner or a month’s supply of K-cups, Americans have learned that they can find household goods for less online. Each […]

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Houston pharmacy gave woman wrong meds, lawsuit alleges http://www.chron.com/news/health/article/Houston-pharmacy-gave-woman-wrong-meds-lawsuit-6279380.php A lawsuit filed Tuesday in the Harris County District Court alleges a Walgreens pharmacy gave a woman the wrong prescription medication, which she took. According to the lawsuit, the woman delivered a prescription for Schizophrenia treatment in May 2013 to a Walgreens pharmacy at Cypress Creek […]

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Pharmacy robberies on the increase http://www.kctv5.com/story/29119574/pharmacy-robberies-on-the-increase Last month, a man walked into an Overland Park CVS pharmacy and robbed the store of the drug hydrocodone.  Earlier this month in Independence, a man and woman were wanted in connection to a Walgreens robbery where police say the woman robbed a pharmacy employee at gunpoint and got […]

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The Likely Cause of Addiction Has Been Discovered, and It Is Not What You Think http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/the-real-cause-of-addicti_b_6506936.html 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 addiction by our teachers and by our governments. This […]

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachnoiditis Arachnoiditis is inflammation of the arachnoid, one of the membranes known as meninges that surround and protect the nerves of the central nervous system, including the brain and spinal cord. The arachnoid can become inflamed because of adverse reactions to chemicals, infection from bacteria or viruses, as the result of direct injury to the […]

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DEA raids clinics, pharmacies in 4 Southern states, has arrested 280 in 16-month crackdown http://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2015/05/20/dea-wrapping-up-4-state-prescription-southern-drug-crackdown LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Federal agents say they have carried out raids at medical clinics and pharmacies in four Southern states as part of a crackdown intended to help people addicted to prescription drugs. Agents from the Drug Enforcement […]

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I found this posted on another FACE BOOK page.. apparently from a Pharmacist that works for one of the major chains.. From Pharmacists that I have talked to… this is not isolated to just this single chain pharmacy…but is a industry wide problem… and putting the pt’s health at risk is just the cost of […]

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2 former DEA agents charged with lying about ownership of NJ strip club http://7online.com/news/2-former-dea-agents-accused-of-lying-about-ownership-of-nj-bar/732415/ SOUTH HACKENSACK, N.J. (WABC) — Two former DEA agents are charged with lying on official forms about the New Jersey strip club they ran. David Polos and Glen Glover surrendered to the FBI and will appear in federal court in Lower […]

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