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re: Rite Aid prepares to file for bankruptcy due to opioid lawsuits

Posted on 8/29/23 at 10:30 am to
Posted by 777Tiger
Member since Mar 2011
73856 posts
Posted on 8/29/23 at 10:30 am to
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Unlike a bartender, a pharmacist is a licensed professional.




I have a bartender's certificate, issued by the City of BR/EBR Parish, from when I was at LSU
Posted by 777Tiger
Member since Mar 2011
73856 posts
Posted on 8/29/23 at 10:32 am to
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(don't recall which bankruptcy that is)


I think that's 7, corporations get more protection from that than individuals, airlines have used Chapter 11 as a business strategy since the 80s
This post was edited on 8/29/23 at 10:55 am
Posted by tide06
Member since Oct 2011
11273 posts
Posted on 8/29/23 at 10:51 am to
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Pretty sure It has to do with pharmacists filling prescriptions they shouldn’t. If they know doctors are way overprescribing to junkies, they shouldn’t be filling the scrips. Now, why pharmacists are responsible for these junkies and not their doctors, that I don’t know.

Exactly how is a pharmacist supposed to know that?

A doctor at a pain clinic is going to write a ton of pain meds. Unless they have specific evidence given to them that someone is running a pill mill how is a pharmacist responsible for policing doctors?

This is an obscene abuse of the legal system by the trial lawyers.
Posted by Hangover Haven
Metry
Member since Oct 2013
26798 posts
Posted on 8/29/23 at 10:52 am to
Rite Aid still open?
Posted by RogerTheShrubber
Juneau, AK
Member since Jan 2009
262126 posts
Posted on 8/29/23 at 10:54 am to
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Exactly how is a pharmacist supposed to know that?


Lawyers just go for anyone with money.

Truth is secondary to $
Posted by Buddy Red
Maringouin, LA
Member since Aug 2007
279 posts
Posted on 8/29/23 at 10:58 am to
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Lawyers just go for anyone with money.

Truth is secondary to $


Easy fix, Sack up and go to trial. If your right, you win. If you lose, you pay. Problem solved.

(AND, if you do win, file motion to tax cost against those big bad trial lawyers and get all your costs back, or at least ones allowed by law)
Posted by MarsellusWallace
504
Member since Apr 2022
383 posts
Posted on 8/29/23 at 11:01 am to
Can the one person who downvoted this please explain your position?
Posted by athenslife101
Member since Feb 2013
18613 posts
Posted on 8/29/23 at 11:04 am to
Pharmacies are being sued because they were complicit in flooding cities beyond what is rational
Posted by imjustafatkid
Alabama
Member since Dec 2011
50902 posts
Posted on 8/29/23 at 11:11 am to
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I'm having a hard time understanding why pharmacies filling doctors prescriptions are liable in this case. Unlike some countries, pharmacies here don't have the power to prescribe drugs. They can only fill prescriptions from a doctor.


Because they want pharmacies to be able to refuse legitimate prescriptions from your doctor, like what happened during COVID with Ivermectin. Even if there isn't a law, leftists want to be able to sue pharmacies for filling legitimate prescriptions. The purpose is to destroy freedom.
Posted by imjustafatkid
Alabama
Member since Dec 2011
50902 posts
Posted on 8/29/23 at 11:11 am to
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This new communism sucks.


McCarthy was right.
Posted by Cosmo
glassman's guest house
Member since Oct 2003
120523 posts
Posted on 8/29/23 at 11:12 am to
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I think in LA a pharmacist can refuse a prescription refill if they have a valid concern.


Only valid concern would be a drug allergy or interaction issue in which case they discuss with ordering MD
This post was edited on 8/29/23 at 11:13 am
Posted by Trevaylin
south texas
Member since Feb 2019
5967 posts
Posted on 8/29/23 at 11:52 am to
Tramadol, a mild pain pill opioid was a fairly common pain prescription for arthritis , wounds, breaks and other minor issues. Limiting factor was constipation!!!!!!! 3-4 days of use would block me up tighter than concrete. Maybe I could join the law suit because I didn't give a crap.

The uncontrolled rise in fentanyl fatalities is do to the federal government interference in the doctor , patient relationship, blocking out the reasonable use of controlled issue Pain meds. Forced a large part of the population into searching for solutions without help
Posted by chRxis
None of your fricking business
Member since Feb 2008
23690 posts
Posted on 8/29/23 at 12:26 pm to
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Exactly how is a pharmacist supposed to know that?

there's a prescription monitoring program, that tracks patient's profiles and catalogues narcotic prescriptions... you are supposed to check that before filling any narcotic for a patient, to make sure everything is on the up and up...

back in the day about 15 years ago, they didn't have a system like this, and that's really when narcotics were being overprescribed and filled... the response to this by the DEA was very slow and happened about 5-7 years too late, and then they just sorta ran with it, to where it's overly restricted now... treat it sorta the same way as the illegal drug trade, in some ways in their approach...

and yes, pharmacists should have some resonsibility to watch for patterns and signs of misuse and/or abuse of prescription medications.... that's part of the job
Posted by Auburn1968
NYC
Member since Mar 2019
19796 posts
Posted on 8/29/23 at 12:32 pm to
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Tramadol, a mild pain pill opioid was a fairly common pain prescription for arthritis , wounds, breaks and other minor issues. Limiting factor was constipation!!!!!!! 3-4 days of use would block me up tighter than concrete. Maybe I could join the law suit because I didn't give a crap.

The uncontrolled rise in fentanyl fatalities is do to the federal government interference in the doctor , patient relationship, blocking out the reasonable use of controlled issue Pain meds. Forced a large part of the population into searching for solutions without help



My cousin has had five major back surgeries and needs some very strong pain killers. Now he's hard pressed to get anything strong enough to work.
Posted by NIH
Member since Aug 2008
112802 posts
Posted on 8/29/23 at 12:35 pm to
Attorneys should stop being queers and go after people with no money
Posted by HBDTigaz
Baton Rouge
Member since Mar 2023
69 posts
Posted on 8/29/23 at 12:35 pm to
Sacklers passing the buck....
Posted by Walt OReilly
Poplarville, MS
Member since Oct 2005
124694 posts
Posted on 8/29/23 at 12:39 pm to
Bring back the old K & Bs

This post was edited on 8/29/23 at 12:40 pm
Posted by The Baker
This is fine.
Member since Dec 2011
16189 posts
Posted on 8/29/23 at 2:39 pm to
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I'm having a hard time understanding why pharmacies filling doctors prescriptions are liable

The literal function of a pharmacist is to be a barrier between physicians and patients, for the protection of patients.

Some doctors may pretend they are the end all be all for you getting medicine, but the final say is the pharmacist "filling" your prescription.

They are liable bc they failed to perform their function ethically.
Posted by SirWinston
PNW
Member since Jul 2014
82526 posts
Posted on 8/29/23 at 2:41 pm to
That sucks - there’s a cute Russian girl at my RAD pharmacy here. She’s super unfriendly though and the other day I was in there and interacted with her twice (about 2 hours apart) and she didn’t seem to remember me. Was quite a check on me pride.
This post was edited on 8/29/23 at 2:46 pm
Posted by LRB1967
Tennessee
Member since Dec 2020
15952 posts
Posted on 8/29/23 at 2:42 pm to
In some cases patients had huge quantities of pills from multiple doctors. The rationale is that pharmacists were told to overlook the huge red flag and that is the reason for the liability.
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