PHARMACIST STEVE

What could go wrong? When the same company owns abt a 10,000 store community pharmacy, a mail order pharmacy, one or more “specialty pharmacy(s),  the largest nursing home pharmacy and also owns the largest PBM. A $290 million fine after a whistleblower accused the business of overcharging Medicare on prescription drugs in 2013 & 2014, […]

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Now that we know how many laws/rules that are being broken  How many laws are their violating – let me count the ways The DOJ/DEA falls under the saying we heard on a regular basis during the last Presidential administration. No one is above the law, except those who enforce our laws and/or friends with […]

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Remember the primary basis of the practice of medicine is the starting, changing, stopping a pt’s therapy. Zepbound (tirzepatide) is the only GLP-1 product that activates GIP and GLP-1 receptors, which regulate appetite, insulin response, and digestion. All the other “GLP-1” only activates ONE RECEPTOR. There is a third receptor glucagon receptor (GcgR), which will […]

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One of the primary basics of the practice of medicine – starting, changing or stopping a pt’s therapy. The DEA started creating production quotas of control meds  abt 2015 and ended up overall reducing the availability of control meds by > 50% over the following years. How many pts have a valid medical necessity for […]

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I was talking to a gal this week that I have known for 3+ decades and she is involved with a local recovery center because her Nephew also had a fatal OD. She was telling me that the judges in the drug courts are getting really pissed because people assigned to the drug court are […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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            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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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