No Charges for Cops Who Disfigured Toddler with Grenade During Negligent Drug Raid

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/charges-cops-disfigured-toddler-grenade-negligent-drug-raid/

From the article:

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An employee diverts 20,000 units of opiates … doesn’t say how the diversion was made … unless it was calling in Rxs to pharmacies while working at the office..  As insurance companies/Medicare/Medicaid keeps reducing payment for services.. the more ancillary staff that is needed to get the job done.. Prescribers are mostly in exam rooms with pts… employees are mostly directly unsupervised by the DEA registrant/prescriber.  There is no mention of any thing happening to the employee that diverted all those opiate doses.

I guess the employee didn’t have a “pot to piss in ” .. so did the DEA give the employee a “pass” for testifying against boss/prescriber ??

Oklahoma City Doctor Pays $40,000 to Settle
Civil Penalty Claims Involving Violations of
Controlled Substances Act
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 7, 2014
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma — STANLEY K. ROGERS, D.O., who practices in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, has agreed to pay $40,000 to the United States to settle civil penalty claims stemming from allegations that he violated the Controlled Substances Act, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.

The Controlled Substances Act, 21 U.S.C. Sections 801 et seq. (“CSA”), was passed by Congress to combat the illegal distribution and abuse of controlled substances, including prescription medications. The CSA is enforced by the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) Office of Diversion Control, with a mission to prevent, detect, and investigate the diversion of controlled pharmaceuticals and listed chemicals from legitimate sources while ensuring an adequate and uninterrupted supply for legitimate medical, commercial, and scientific needs.

Under the CSA, medical providers registered with the DEA who purchase, distribute, dispense, transfer, or sell controlled substances must comply with inventory and documentation requirements. Regulations promulgated under the CSA require that each DEA registrant, maintain complete and accurate records of each substance manufactured, received, sold, delivered, dispensed or otherwise disposed of by the registrant. These requirements play a vital role in ensuring the appropriate handling, accounting, and distribution of controlled substances.

Violations of the record-keeping requirements subject DEA registrants to civil monetary penalties.

The United States alleged that between January 1, 2012, and February 4, 2014, at least one employee in Dr. Rogers’ office used his DEA registration number in order to obtain over 20,000 dosage units of Schedules III and IV controlled substances which were not for legitimate medical purposes.

It was alleged that Dr. Rogers failed to provide effective controls and procedures against theft and diversion, failed to maintain and review records of the dates, quantities received, dispensation, or inventories of controlled substances purchased using his DEA registration number.

In order to resolve the civil penalty claims against by the United States, Dr. Rogers agreed to pay $40,000 to the government In reaching this settlement, Dr. Rogers did not admit liability and the government did not make any concession regarding the legitimacy of the claims. The agreement allows the parties to avoid the delay, expense, inconvenience, and uncertainty involved in litigating the case.

This case was investigated by the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Oklahoma City District Office Diversion Group and was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Ronald R. Gallegos.

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Holy Cow!! Look At What the Alabama Board of Pharmacy is Seeing During its Inspections of Compounding Pharmacies!

Posted: 11 Oct 2014 10:19 PM PDT

DR. ALVERSON: For 797, I’d say
5 it’s — it’s still all over the board of what we
6 see. We’ve gone into some places that are
7 almost virtually perfect and others that are
8 really questionable. I guess the thing that
9 strikes me when we go into some of them is how
10 often we hear, oh, I didn’t know that and I
11 always have this feeling, well, it’s — it’s
12 written right — it’s written down, did you not
13 read it, and I really have the sense of a lot of
14 times people haven’t — haven’t read it.
I would say the other thing we’re
16 starting to see is people who don’t know
17 anything about pharmacy who have heard there’s
18 money to be made and decide they are going to
19 open up a compounding — sterile compounding
20 pharmacy and — you know, and they’re going to
21 hire a pharmacist and frequently the pharmacist
22 has never compounded in their life and they want
23 us to certify it. So we’ve been in a number of those recently where we get there and there’s
2 just a big room.
***
DR. ALVERSON: Just what — what
19 people seem to think, I just rent a place
20 somewhere, get a room, hire a pharmacist, and
21 I’m going to start making sterile injections
22 tomorrow and we’re seeing more and more of that.
23 The last one we went into we required them to
rip out the floor, rip out the counters, change
2 the layout of rooms, I mean, to put doors in
3 walls but —
4 MR. CONRADI: So we’re catching it on
5 the front end of that one?
6 DR. ALVERSON: Yeah.
7 MR. CONRADI: That’s scary.
quoted from August 2014 Alabama Board of Pharmacy Minutes

We saw with “opiate pill mills”  owned by person(s) that had no medical background and hiring healthcare professionals to see pts and make a “fast buck”. This was from Alabama .. but is this an example of where they have went and what they are up to ? I wonder if other BOP’s are as on the ball as Alabama BOP’s is ? I hope so… we don’t need a few more NECC out there…

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This showed up in a post on the internet… by a chronic pain pt in Florida.

In my last post I told of being abruptly shut out of Walgreens for my Oxy meds, without any explanation and after being a loyal customer for 16 years.

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County pharmacists have licenses suspended and are ordered to sell their businesses

http://www.journal-eureka.com/news/jones_county/article_a0ceab20-4f03-11e4-9435-001a4bcf6878.html

From the article:

  Father and son pharmacists Phillip Tuetken and Christopher Tuetken each had their licenses to practice pharmacy suspended by the Iowa Board of Pharmacy one day apart for seemingly unrelated infractions.

      Christopher Tuetken owns several drug stores in the area, including Long Drug in Monticello and Wyoming Drug in Wyoming. As part of the pharmacy board’s decision, he was ordered to sell all of them by Dec. 1.

His license to practice pharmacy was suspended for one year, and he was forever prohibited from owning or managing a pharmacy or holding the position of pharmacist-in-charge. The order came at an Aug. 27 disciplinary hearing.

      An employee at Downtown Drug in Cedar Rapids, a pharmacy Christopher Tuetken owned and served as the pharmacist-in-charge at, stole at least 18,000 tablets of hydrocodone over at least a two-year period, according to documents obtained from the pharmacy board’s website.

      “I should have known better,” Christopher Tuetken said, adding that he was “caught blindsided” when his trusted employee Chuck Long betrayed him.

“The board has grave concerns about [Christopher] Tuetken’s ability to safely practice pharmacy,” the board’s decision reads. “The evidence demonstrates that Tuetken spread himself entirely too thin, as owner of up to 12 pharmacies at one point. Tuetken’s vast business interests left him unable to manage the day-to-day requirements of being a pharmacist-in-charge at Downtown Drug. This practice of overextending himself seems to have led directly to the majority of the violations here.”

I have heard time and again… BOP’s stating that they will not interfere with how a business operates… when there is complaints of under staffing in the Rx dept…yet.. this BOP took the stance that this RPH was “spread to thin”…

I wonder how many Rx depts have had “unaccounted” 18 K opiate doses and was required to “sell the store”…  I am aware of at least 3 in the last year short more than 18 K … I wonder what would have been the outcome if  it had been a chain or hospital.. that had same/similar issues. ?

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Sebastopol and West County Boycott of CVS

http://www.waccobb.net/forums/showthread.php?107957-Sebastopol-and-West-County-Boycott-of-CVS&p=184088

From the article:

In solidarity with them, I cast my NO vote last night with Councilmember Eder. It is essential that we, as people, stand up to the bullying of massive corporations in every way that we are able, even if it is a protest vote.

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/2949536-181/sebastopol-council-signs-off-on#page=1

Eder spoke of “bait and switch tactics,” and described CVS as “a corporate terrorist,” that used the fact that the city has limited funds to force resolution “gained through coercive and unethical means.”

The media keeps warning us about HOME GROWN TERRORISTS !

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arbitration

I never know what is going to show up in my inbox….

This makes interesting reading…  YOU ACCEPT THE POLICY BY CONTINUING YOUR EMPLOYMENT

IF YOU OPT OUT>>> NO NEGATIVE ACTION WILL BE TAKEN AGAINST YOU FOR OPTING OUT…

We will find other reasons to FIRE YOUR ASS !

CVS Health extends kudos to its pharmacists

http://www.chaindrugreview.com/newsbreaks-archives/2014-09-29/cvs-health-extends-kudos-to-its-pharmacists

CVS Health is saying thanks to its 26,000 pharmacists during October’s American Pharmacists Month for their dedication to serving patients in the company’s retail pharmacies, mail service pharmacies and specialty pharmacies nationwide.

10/08/2014 Rumor on the street is that a few CVS HEALTH employees have consulted an attorney about this contract.. and it seems that they are universally being told NOT TO SIGN IT !

I am not an attorney, but if you already work in a “at-will state”.. your employer can fire you for any reason or no reason.. IMO.. this contract is attempting to put a “fire wall” between the employee and their ability to get regress from CVS HEALTH for violating a multitude of Fed/State laws.  Of course, if this contract is not legal to begin with… it will probably take an employee to take them to court – expending time and money – just to get a ruling that it is not legal.. and CVS HEALTH has much deeper pockets than those employees at the store level.

10/11/2014   CVS Employee arbitration information click to open

According to the first page… an employee should be able to completely read AND UNDERSTAND 14 pages in TEN MINUTES …  I tried to read thru these pages and IMO.. anyone who tries to read/understand these 14 pages in 10 minutes… is either extremely bright or a fool/idiot !

I had my own pharmacy for 20 yrs… as well as some other businesses and one thing that I have found in contracts presented to me… generated by them… tend to have one thing in common .. lack mutuality … which means that it grossly benefits the entity that drew up the contact and puts the entity that is to sign the contract at a great disadvantage.

It is common business sense… NEVER SIGN ANYTHING… that was drawn up by an attorney – other than one working for you – until you have your attorney review the contract.

Most contracts are – or should be – mutually agreed upon terms… There have been a number of times that I have walked away from a contract… because the terms of the contract were NON NEGOTIABLE !

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The man, who did not give his name and hid his face from BBC’s reporters for fear of himself or his family–still in Syria–being killed, explained the ISIS philosophy simply: “If you’re against me, then you’ll be killed. If you’re with me, you work with me. You submit to my will and obey me, under my power in all matters.“ http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/07/15/Former-ISIS-Jihadist-The-Brutality-of-ISIS-Terrifies-Everyone

Increasingly my inbox is like a BOX OF CHOCOLATE  you just never know what is going to show up …

It now appears that CVS HEALTH is changing their contract with Pharmacies .. that if the pharmacies don’t stop selling tobacco products.. they will “fine” the pharmacy’s patients FIFTEEN DOLLARS ADDITIONAL CO PAY ON EACH RX FILLED. Which will put a major dent in a Pharmacy’s profits.. if they can even stay afloat.

There has been a lot of talks about  Islamic State, formerly the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS)  lately in the news.. especially after they have BEHEADED three innocent civilians and posted the beheading on www.youtube.com. What has been stated about ISIS’ philosophy is “convert to ISLAM or DIE ” !

Seems like CVS HEALTH has developed a similar philosophy … “convert to our philosophy or we will KILL YOUR BUSINESS ”

IMO.. whoever thought this up has loss all their

Or has a lot of these …

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Align My Refills

Three national pharmacy associations get behind encouraging pts to be compliant with their prescribed medications for chronic conditions.

• American Pharmacists Association (APhA)
• National Alliance of State Pharmacy Associations (NASPA)
• National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA)

http://www.alignmyrefills.com/

From the article:

Med sync is especially helpful for people who take multiple, monthly medications such as those with chronic illness or the elderly, as well as caregivers or family members responsible for helping them manage their prescription refills.

Medication adherence is a major issue in this country. Med sync programs offer multiple benefits to patients and their loved ones or caregivers that improve their ability to take their medication as directed.

I guess that since all opiates – except Tylenol with Cod – are now C-II’s and you have to get a new Rx each time.. technically they are not refills … So Pharmacist can claim they are following this policy.. while continuing to refuse to fill opiates ? If you notice the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CHAIN DRUG STORES… is not on board  neither is the NATIONAL ASSOCIATIONS BOARDS OF PHARMACY !

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Alcohol Involvement in Opioid Pain Reliever and Benzodiazepine Drug Abuse–Related Emergency Department Visits and Drug-Related Deaths — United States, 2010

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6340a1.htm?s_cid=mm6340a1_e

From the article:

The abuse of prescription drugs has led to a significant increase in emergency department (ED) visits and drug-related deaths over the past decade. Opioid pain relievers (OPRs) and benzodiazepines are the prescription drugs most commonly involved in these events (1,2). Excessive alcohol consumption also accounts for a significant health burden and is common among groups that report high rates of prescription drug abuse (1,3,4)

Imagine that… people who abuse controlled meds… ALSO abuse alcohol … a little fact that seems to be left out of published stats… about ER visits caused by substance abuse…  ALCOHOL is consider a DRUG.. just not a controlled drug or a opiate..  I know that must have been a oversight by those issuing press releases supporting the war on drugs.

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