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re: Rite Aid prepares to file for bankruptcy due to opioid lawsuits
Posted on 8/29/23 at 2:44 pm to Auburn1968
Posted on 8/29/23 at 2:44 pm to Auburn1968
We haven't had a Rite-Aid in SE Tennessee in years. Walgreens bought them out.
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Posted on 8/29/23 at 2:54 pm to Auburn1968
I didn't read the article, but were any family owned small pharmacies sued?
It seems like they would be less likely to report the fact that there is a certain drug being over prescribed and that it is causing addiction.
Wasn't there a small pharmacy in West Virginia that at one time was filling more Oxycotin prescriptions than any other pharmacy in the state?
It seems like they would be less likely to report the fact that there is a certain drug being over prescribed and that it is causing addiction.
Wasn't there a small pharmacy in West Virginia that at one time was filling more Oxycotin prescriptions than any other pharmacy in the state?
Posted on 8/29/23 at 3:01 pm to chRxis
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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
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.
Posted on 8/29/23 at 3:06 pm to The Baker
I don't understand why so many pills are prescribed at a time. I had half my thyroid removed a few years ago. Doc numbed the area with something that would last for 24 hours and it worked. He also prescribed 40 Percocet to take if I needed it. Still have all of them; never got close to painful enough to need them.
Posted on 8/29/23 at 3:16 pm to DakIsNoLB
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I don't understand why so many pills are prescribed at a time. I had half my thyroid removed a few years ago. Doc numbed the area with something that would last for 24 hours and it worked. He also prescribed 40 Percocet to take if I needed it. Still have all of them; never got close to painful enough to need them.
Watch 'Painkiller' on Netflix, it explains why. The salespeople who went out to convince doctors to start using Oxycotin didn't get commission based on how many pills were sold, it was based on how many milligrams.
The sales reps goal was to pretty much convince the doctors that whatever milligram they started a patient on, they had to gradually up the milligrams.
As for as Percocet, I have no idea, but according to several shows about Oxycotin, the doctors who prescribed at most pills at the highest milligrams offered were jackpot for the sales reps.
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