Community pharmacies are in crisis. Three things need to change

Walgreens’ chief pharmacy officer proposes fixes to a system that broke long ago https://www.statnews.com/2025/08/12/community-pharmacy-crisis-rite-aid-bankruptcy-walgreens/ Earlier this year, the second largest independent pharmacy chain in America, Rite-Aid, filed for bankruptcy. While many were caught off guard, I wasn’t. After 30 years in community pharmacy, I saw this coming. Financial pressure has been building for years. Burnout […]

Pharmacist prescription refusal lawsuit highlights human rights, religious rights

https://www.fox9.com/news/pharmacist-prescription-refusal-lawsuit-highlights-human-religious-rights (FOX 9) – Two Twin Cities pharmacists say they lost work when they refused to fulfill prescriptions for gender transition and emergency contraception. Refusal on faith Pharmacists won’t fulfill: They cited religious objections, but one of them says she was fired and the other had hours reduced.  So now they’re suing Walgreens and the […]

National Sickle Cell Awareness Month

MAYDAY… MAYDAY…The Government is not your Doctor per Dr. Marty Makary, head of the FDA

            Below is number of videos from various parts of our bureaucracy. Also below is just a few of the videos that I was able to find where our bureaucrats are not happy about the path we are on… a number of the citizens of our country apparently feels the […]

Happy Labor Day

September is Chronic Pain & Suicide Awareness month

‘Make America free of addicts’ campaign launches to help Trump lower overdose deaths

Make America free of drug addicts Another article and another group that is not  smart enough to find out that there is more that just one Fentanyl analog. Article and group that if their kid, friend, relative that is not smart enough to question that buying drugs on the street and they are upset because […]

C-2

I am sorry that this got a little long. The cliff notes version is: 45+/- state AGs sued the 3 major drug wholesalers – that control about 85% of the wholesaler Rx med business. They got those wholesalers to agreed to ration the amount of controlled meds that they sell to community pharmacies. No concern […]

the Trump administration has been floating the idea of merging the ATF with the DEA:What could go wrong?

What should be asked is why back in 1973, that Congress put two legal drugs (Nicotine & Alcohol)  Into a separate and distinct sub-agency under the DOJ while putting all the other potentially abused/addicting drugs in and under the control of the DEA? Could we see some sort of tracking (PDMP) and daily limits (Ounces […]

UPDATED 08-27-2025: I NEED/WANT YOUR OPINION

you will need either a laptop computer or desk top computer to do this This blog post will be my 11,011 blog post since I started in 2012 and my blog is approaching THREE MILLION PAGE VIEWS. I have been around the chronic pain community since 2012. There are a few things that have remained […]