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

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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

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I can't find the article, but at one point when they were suing pharmaceutical companies here in Kentucky they found that they were somehow bypassing the system (and the company was complicit) to fill narcotics.

Pain management clinics were also doing this. And just handing that shite out hand over fist.