California pharmacies are making millions of mistakes. They’re fighting to keep that secret

California pharmacies are making millions of mistakes. They’re fighting to keep that secret https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-09-05/california-pharmacies-prescription-errors-cvs-walgreens Sharri Shaw walked out of the CVS on Vermont Avenue in South Los Angeles in 2019 believing she had a prescription for the pain reliever acetaminophen. Instead the bottle held a medicine to treat high blood pressure, a problem she did […]

EDITORIAL: CVS Pharmacist: “I am awakened by nightmares about prescription errors.”

EDITORIAL:CVS Pharmacist: “I am awakened by nightmares about prescription errors.” https://pharmacistactivist.com/2023/August_2023.shtml The Ohio Board of Pharmacy has documented errors/violations, but does pharmacy recognize the dangers for patients and our profession? The comments provided below by a current CVS pharmacist would be alarming for CVS customers if they were aware of the working conditions in the […]

Pharmacy Desert: fewer stores, shorter hours, skeleton staffing

It would seem that our healthcare system is consolidating geographically, in doing so “they” are creating “healthcare deserts” and “healthcare oases” and it also seems that chain pharmacies are at the forefront of creating a “pharmacy desert”.. Since there is a mention in their article of chains “pulling back” because DOJ/DEA fines. Could one or […]

If You Need Pain Pills, Politicians Want To Monitor Your Body Chemistry

  Is this law from 1935 in conflict with the proposed bill list below ? 42 USC 1395: Prohibition against any Federal interference Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed to authorize any Federal officer or employee to exercise any supervision or control over the practice of medicine or the manner in which medical services […]

AMERICA’S PRESCRIPTION OPIOID CRISIS HAS BEEN, “ONE MAGNIFICENT GRAND HOAX,” MAJOR STUDY DEBUNKS 2022 CDC AN ALL ENFORCEMENT PRESCRIPTION OPIOID GUIDELINES

STUDY BY RICHARD LAWHERN, PH.D DEBUNKS BOTH 2022 CDC, ALL DOJ ENFORCEMENT GUIDELINES: “PRESCRIPTION OPIOID CRISIS IN AMERICA HAS BEEN ONE MAGNIFICENT HOAX”

Charging Prescriber & Pharmacist for illegally providing opioids – just a matter of NUMBERS

This ~ 40 minute video showed up in my email inbox and very informative information provided by two attorneys. Describing how they “track down” – per their criteria that is all about “numbers” and “data mining”.. your basic data “fishing expedition” in the state’s PDMP. According to the first attorney in the video,  “they” were […]

Will Artificial Intelligence move pain management from the practice of medicine to the science of medicine

In my life time, it was believed that physicians PRACTICED MEDICINE. Since computers have invaded all of our lives, medicine has been sliding or evolving towards the science of medicine. Artificial Intelligence (AI) as it interfaces with medicine, the window on the “practice of medicine” may close to some degree, maybe at least try to […]

That light at the end of the tunnel IS A TRAIN

      This is what is happening in Colorado … I’m looking for help with having a PBM trying to deny coverage because of a MME. My state (Colorado) has passes a law that says these pbm cannot deny coverage because of a predetermined mme. The pbm doesn’t feel that they are under that […]

In effect: DEA final rule on transfer of EPCS in schedules II–V between pharmacies for initial filling

If you are a pt that has been on what has been called the “pharmacy crawl” going from pharmacy to pharmacy to find one that has in stock the controlled med that you have been prescribed. I would recommend that don’t get too excited, expecting to see this new DEA rule to be in place […]

CRIES OF THE USELESS EATERS: EXPLORES JUDICIAL TRICHERY IN THE DEHUMANIZATION TATICS OF THE CHRONIC PAIN PATIENTS

  CRIES OF THE USELESS EATERS: NEO-EUGENICS, SUB-HUMANIZATION, AMA- “CRIMINALIZATION OF MEDICINE MUST STOP,” MICHIGAN BLUE CROSS-DOJ-DEA, TARGETTING PAIN CENTER OF WARREN MI., (SZYMAN, BOTHRA, POMPY et al. TRIALS)