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https://www.pharmaciststeve.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/kaiser.pdf Above is a link to a synopsis of the nearly 600-page agreement between 40+ state AGs and the three major drug wholesalers – who control about 80%-85% of all Rx med distribution to pharmacies. This agreement was not to see the light of day, and it took 1-1.5 yrs for someone to leak it. […]
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The drug war might be the perfect no-win scenario By Trish Randall https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/12/the_drug_war_might_be_the_perfect_nowin_scenario.html For reducing illicit drug use, violence, or property crime, drug prohibition has been as unsuccessful as alcohol prohibition was for initiating Utopia. But as a method for propagating bureaucracy, it’s been wildly successful. Albert Einstein never said, “Insanity is doing the same thing, […]
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Cruel & Unusual Pain Treatment Trish Randall @trishrandall312428 Punishing one group for the behavior of another is the height of injustice https://substack.com/@trishrandall312428/p-158606067? America’s drug regulations rest on long-familiar, syllogism-like tendrils: Drugs are dangerous. Users can harm others. Laws target those who hurt people. Even if the drug war is unwinnable, punishing users who get caught […]
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Walgreens Seals $10 Billion Take-Private Deal With Sycamore https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/walgreens-seals-10-billion-take-private-deal-with-sycamore/ar-AA1ApjdU Walgreens’s almost centurylong run as a public company is coming to an end. The embattled drugstore chain has struck a deal to be taken private by Sycamore Partners in one of the biggest leveraged buyouts in recent memory. Sycamore has agreed to pay $11.45 a share […]
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Our next “health crisis” may be on the horizon. CMS is trying to save $$ on our national “medication cost”, which is admirable, but their apparent solution may cause a massive creation of “pharmacy desserts”. When we opened our independent pharmacy in 1976, about 45,000 pharmacies – abt 80% were independent pharmacies. I don’t remember […]
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Anti-Obesity Medicines Are Not All Created Equally https://thetimesweekly.com/2025/03/anti-obesity-medicines-are-not-all-created-equally/ The new FDA-approved weight loss medicines have changed the game for people with obesity, offering millions of people a chance to transform their health, prevent disease, and live longer lives. But as demand for these treatments soars, an illegal industry is growing alongside it. Criminal networks, counterfeiters, […]
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Novo Nordisk unveils DTC pharmacy NovoCare, offers discounted Wegovy https://www.mmm-online.com/news/novo-nordisk-dtc-pharmacy-novocare-discounted-wegovy/ The home shipments — which will be fulfilled by CenterWell Pharmacy — include Wegovy injections of 0.25 mg, 0.5 mg, 1 mg, 1.7 mg and 2.4 mg. Novo Nordisk has officially entered the direct-to-consumer (DTC) platform game. The Danish drugmaker unveiled NovoCare Pharmacy on Wednesday […]
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Senior citizens are rattled by news that Medicare telehealth coverage could expire next month https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/senior-citizens-medicare-telehealth-coverage-expiring-rcna193487 Advocates say the coverage has bipartisan support, but efforts to make it permanent have been unsuccessful. For Kaye Peterson, 67, the expansion of Medicare telehealth coverage during Covid-19 was a godsend. Peterson, who has Type 1 diabetes and lives in […]
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Why Reliable Opioid Death Data is Impossible https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/07/why_reliable_opioid_death_data_is_impossible.html If we’ve learned anything from our national COVID experience, it’s that science is not a collection of fixed, eternal declarations. Tools and terminology useful in the process of discovery can also be instruments of confirmation. A microscope can be a portal to the unexpected, or a prop […]
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Shots Fired!! Two of the most prestigious medical journals just came out fiercely against epidural injections / RFA. The British Medical Journal just published a “Practice Guideline” paper with these damning statements: “For people living with chronic radicular spine pain, the guideline panel issued strong recommendations against: epidural injection of local anaesthetic, steroids, or their […]
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