http://www.cvshealth.com/our-businesses/maintenance-choice%C2%AE

Studies show that a quarter of people receiving prescriptions never fill their first prescription, and patients with chronic diseases such as diabetes and coronary artery disease adhere to their ongoing medication regimen about half of the time. In fact, non-adherence to essential medications is a frequent cause of preventable hospitalizations and patient illness, with costs to the U.S. health care system estimated at about $300 billion annually.

So the next time that a CVS Health Pharmacist tells you that they are “not comfortable” filling your prescriptions.. that they are going against the company’s policy of improving compliance and that they are personally contributing to the waste of the 300 billion dollars to our healthcare system.

The question has to be asked.. if this is a published policy of CVS HEALTH and one of their Pharmacist refused to fill your legit/on time/medically necessary medication… are they violating the company’s policies and procedures.. which in most companies… violating the company’s policies and procedure can cause an employee to be disciplined or fired…

OR

Is CVS HEALTH guilty of false advertising ? after all you health is everything…

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Walgreens layoffs begin

http://azdailysun.com/business/local/walgreens-layoffs-begin/article_0a467c95-de25-5576-bf5e-94d7cb04cc03.html

The first round of official layoffs for Walgreens employees came this month. All of the 27 employees involved in this round volunteered to leave early, said Coconino County Career Center Director Carol Curtis. Another 200 employees are slated to be laid off in February.

In all, 345 employees will lose their jobs when the Flagstaff distribution center closes in late spring. 

“The task will be matching the skills sets with the Walgreens folks, or helping them increase their skills to become employable in our labor market, or other areas,” Curtis said.

 The closure is one of the largest in the history of Flagstaff. One economist from the Economic Collaborative of Northern Arizona estimated that the closure of a similar-sized company in Phoenix would be equal to about 28,000 people losing their jobs.

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Ken Mc Kim is back… pointing out the “lunacy” in our society when it comes to subjective diseases and how we treat those with these diseases.
While he uses the word persecution.. when one person intentionally causes another to be in pain… whether they induce pain on that person directly.. think stun gun, baseball bat or some other physical infliction of pain or deny the person some sort of physical/medical therapy so that they are no longer in pain.. Isn’t the intentional infliction of pain on another person synonymous with TORTURE ? So, if true, isn’t our judicial torturing all too many in our society.. that have the misfortune to suffer from certain subjective diseases ?

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American’s Calls Covertly Tracked by DEA for over a Decade

http://www.worldreportnow.com/americans-calls-covertly-tracked-by-dea-for-over-a-decade/126/

In a new court filing, it was revealed that the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), which operates under the US Justice Department, has covertly been tracking American’s phone calls to overseas countries for over a decade in an attempt to identify drug trafficking, as well as other crimes.

Only outgoing phone calls were mentioned in the official document but according to insiders, data the DEA collected also related to calls coming in. Not mentioned was what the content of all the conversations nor were the number of countries involved mentioned or any specific countries with the exception of Iran.

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Another Closure?

http://homenewshere.com/wilmington_town_crier/news/article_fe70852c-9d88-11e4-96c3-7388ed2e715a.html

WILMINGTON – Walgreens’ slogan is “At the Corner of Happy and Healthy” but some customers may find themselves at the corner of angry and inconvenienced instead.

A source who works at another Walgreens location informed the Crier that the Wilmington Walgreens may be closing, fueling concerns that that the 227 Main Street location could see the same fate as the Reading store.

Last June Walgreens shuttered its 5 Harnden St. business, reportedly with little notice. Store employees were told not to share news of the closing with customers. Those using the Walgreens pharmacy had to travel to Rite Aid where their prescriptions were transferred.

The move was part of an effort to close unprofitable stores. A 2014 retail industry report showed 76 Walgreens locations would cease operation. The Northeast lost 20 stores; the highest number of closings in the U.S. Other reasons for the closures were aging stores and Walgreens that were too close in proximity to each other.

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Did Two Off-Duty BSO Deputies Shoot Up a Walgreens After Leaving a Strip Club?

http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/pulp/2015/01/did_2_off-duty_bso_deputies_shoot-up_a_walgreens_after_leaving_a_strip_club.php

Photo by CZmarlin via Wikipedia Commons

Back on January 5 at 3:37 a.m., a shot was fired in front of the Walgreens on Haverhill Road and Okeechobee Road in West Palm Beach. PBSO confirmed then that a shot was fired but didn’t release any details. But this week, Florida Cop Watch reported something a little more interesting: Two off-duty Broward deputies were so excited after leaving a strip club, they just had to let one out of the chamber, which almost hit a PBSO cop and ended up hitting an innocent Walgreens.The fun tale continues. After the post-stripper shootout, PBSO stopped the gun-firing revelers and then realized they too were cops. So instead of arresting them, a higher-ranking BSO official was called in and apparently took his boys home to sleep it off. No charges were filed, of course.

New Times tried to confirm the details with PBSO on Thursday, but spokesperson Teri Barbera would tell us only that a shot was indeed fired that night and that the matter is under investigation.

However, BSO Public Information Director Veda Coleman-Wright confirmed with New Times that two Broward deputies are being investigated by PBSO.
Deputy Norman Stepelton, 26, on the force for just over one year, has been suspended with pay.

And Deputy Christopher Mattingly, 24, – in his second year with BSO – is on restricted assignment.

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http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/breaking/ct-walgreen-sabatino-departure-0117-biz-20150116-story.html

Walgreens Boots Alliance top attorney Thomas Sabatino is the latest executive to leave the company.

Sabatino will join Hertz Global Holdings as senior executive vice president, chief administrative officer and general counsel starting Feb. 9. Sabatino had been general counsel for the former Walgreen Co. since 2011 and chief administrative officer since last year. He will remain with the company until the end of January, a month after Walgreen’s acquisition of Alliance Boots closed Dec. 31 and formed holding company Walgreens Boots Alliance.

Walgreen’s CEO Greg Wasson retired after the close of the Alliance Boots acquisition, handing the baton to Stefano Pessina, executive chairman of Alliance Boots, until the company finds a successor. The company’s former chief financial officer, Wade Miquelon, left the company in recent months and sued the company in October, saying he was defamed by comments that suggested he was responsible for a $1 billion forecasting error. Kermit Crawford, Walgreen’s president of pharmacy, health and wellness, also retired at year-end after 31 years with the company.

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Eric Holder just issued a huge blow to the drug war. This is big. 

Today the Justice Department barred local and state police from using a federal program to seize a person’s property without evidence of a crime. 

That might sound odd, since you would assume that it was already illegal in America for police to take your property without due process – but you would be wrong. Originally pushed in the 1980s as a way to combat illegal drugs, civil asset forfeiture has become common throughout the country. 

Today people all over America who are simply suspected of drug law violations can have their assets seized without any ability to defend themselves in a court of law. Even if they are never convicted, or even charged with a crime they can have their property, bank accounts, cars, and assets taken from them forever. If this doesn’t enrage you, I don’t know what will. 

Civil asset forfeiture is another ugly aspect of the drug war, and here at the Drug Policy Alliance we are making it a top issue in 2015. 

If you stand with us tweet out your support now to end unjust civil asset forfeiture for good!

Today’s actions by Eric Holder are a good first step to ending the unjust enforcement of this program once and for all. But now Congress needs to pass legislation to make this change permanent.

Apparently the DEA is still able to use civil forfeiture and how many drug raids have you heard about that the DEA was not involved in ? So is this just another  smoke and mirrors edict… so that all the funds from civil forfeitures will go to the FEDS and the FEDS will just keep all the money/assets or just redistribute monies back to the state and local parts of the judicial system ?

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I did not create the video… This is a video that is sarcasm and a parody about what healthcare professionals have to put up with addicts/diverters  and all the shenanigans they will try to get their hands on some controlled meds .. particularly opiates. This is representative of the “other side of the coin” why legit pts are being denied and turned away.. and they can’t figure out why.  Unfortunately, all too many healthcare professionals are tired of trying to figure how between the legit and bogus pts and have taken the stance that it is easiest to JUST SAY NO !

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Florida’s latest execution ties record

Johnny Kormondy’s execution will be Rick Scott’s 21st

http://www.news4jax.com/news/floridas-latest-execution-ties-record/30744316

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. –

Johnny Shane Kormondy was set to be executed at 6 p.m. Thursday. His execution is Gov. Rick Scott’s 21st, tying a record for the number of executions under one governor in modern times.

Scott accomplished the feat in just over four years, while it took Jeb Bush twice as long.

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