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Walmart Pharmacists Say Company Ignored Red Flags As Opioid Sales Boomed
Posted on 1/4/21 at 9:20 pm
Posted on 1/4/21 at 9:20 pm
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Will Walmart get the Purdue treatment? Will other pharmacies? Is this the beginning of a reckoning?
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Sheoran, now 41, told NPR he kept seeing what the Drug Enforcement Administration considers "red flags." Patients were driving long distances to buy their pills from Walmart. They couldn't explain why they needed such powerful opioid doses. He started raising alarms, sending emails to his bosses in Michigan and to Walmart headquarters in Arkansas. He warned that their pharmacies were feeding a black market for opioids like Oxycontin. What happened next made him angry. "They start putting more pressure on me to just be quiet and not to say anything more," Sheoran said.
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The Justice Department, along with state and local governments, are suing the retail giant, claiming Walmart shipped and sold billions of highly addictive pills without proper safeguards.
Will Walmart get the Purdue treatment? Will other pharmacies? Is this the beginning of a reckoning?
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Posted on 1/4/21 at 9:26 pm to alajones
It’s amazing how deep this shite went. I remember being a medical student in 2004 learning that pain is the fifth vital sign and patients with legitimate pain do not get addicted. They reinvested their profits to create a false reality that lead to unfathomable money. It’s the same thing we see with big tech today.
Posted on 1/4/21 at 9:26 pm to alajones
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The Justice Department, along with state and local governments, are suing the retail giant,
Redistribution of wealth. The lawmakers are heavily invested in opiates. Now they want to shakedown the industry they created.
Posted on 1/4/21 at 9:29 pm to alajones
They need to come get their people on Siegen Lane
Posted on 1/4/21 at 9:31 pm to alajones
So now people who actually need pain killers will not be able to get them without ridiculously hard hoops to jump thru. Meanwhile, MEDICAL marijuana is still illegal at the federal level and considered a crime. You bet your arse that plenty of other dangerous, expensive maintenance meds are being pushed. This country is a fricking joke.
Posted on 1/4/21 at 9:32 pm to alajones
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Will Walmart get the Purdue treatment? Will other pharmacies? Is this the beginning of a reckoning?
It’s just some loser(s) looking to get paid via Walmart.
Posted on 1/4/21 at 9:32 pm to alajones
Walmart did something shady? say it isn't so..../sarcasm off
I worked for the company when in College - after Sam died, the employees were treated like shite, because the family figured out as good as the employees had it, they could make a little more bottom line to take it away.
is also why they never unionized - everyone that wanted to do it, magically ended up fired or let go for whatever reason Walmart decided.
I worked for the company when in College - after Sam died, the employees were treated like shite, because the family figured out as good as the employees had it, they could make a little more bottom line to take it away.
is also why they never unionized - everyone that wanted to do it, magically ended up fired or let go for whatever reason Walmart decided.
Posted on 1/4/21 at 9:32 pm to Btrtigerfan
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Redistribution of wealth. The lawmakers are heavily invested in opiates. Now they want to shakedown the industry they created.
While that is all fine and dandy, wtf are they doing about all the (presumably Chinese) research chemicals that get mailed/sent to America. Mainly fent, and variously altered compounds of it , which allows it to stay a step ahead of the dea's labeling of the substance.
Posted on 1/4/21 at 9:33 pm to upgrayedd
Yeah no idea why they’re standing in front of a Target and God’s chicken.
Posted on 1/4/21 at 9:34 pm to jcaz
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Meanwhile, MEDICAL marijuana is still illegal at the federal level and considered a crime.
House just passed bipartisan legislation to deschedule pot. Senate has yet to take up vote.
Posted on 1/4/21 at 9:36 pm to Thracken13
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is also why they never unionized - everyone that wanted to do it, magically ended up fired or let go for whatever reason Walmart decided.
I'm no fan of Chinamart but unions are fricking worthless organizations that hurt good employees and rewards pieces of shite.
Posted on 1/4/21 at 9:38 pm to Strannix
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I'm no fan of Chinamart but unions are fricking worthless organizations that hurt good employees and rewards pieces of shite.
they are now forsure. A lot of our worker's rights that come standard today are only because of Unions. shite the pension fund built Vegas.
but you are correct they are worthless now.
Posted on 1/4/21 at 10:05 pm to alajones
Walmart management aren't doctors. Nor did they examine the patients? How the hell are they responsible for the people that got prescriptions? This looks like a shakedown.
Posted on 1/4/21 at 10:07 pm to hombreman9
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patients with legitimate pain do not get addicted
Lolwut?
Posted on 1/4/21 at 10:10 pm to BamaCoaster
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House just passed bipartisan legislation to deschedule pot. Senate has yet to take up vote.
McConnel is too busy being absolute scum to let it happen.
Posted on 1/4/21 at 10:10 pm to Galactic Inquisitor
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Lolwut?
I think he is referring to Purdue pumping money and "studies" into the scientific literature and having their own narrative being taken as fact and taught to future doctors in school. The whole oxycontin shtick was that it was "non habit forming"
Edit: that and their extensive advertising and "selling" schemes with the samples for the doctors to give out and the money the doctors who were prescribing it stood to make. I only remember bits and pieces, but it was all pretty crazy IIRC.
This post was edited on 1/4/21 at 10:17 pm
Posted on 1/4/21 at 10:14 pm to Taxing Authority
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Walmart management aren't doctors. Nor did they examine the patients? How the hell are they responsible for the people that got prescriptions? This looks like a shakedown.
I’m not a doctor or a pharmacist but my understanding is that doctors prescribe and pharmacists fill the prescription. I guess they have the right to refuse but the prescriber should be held accountable.
Posted on 1/4/21 at 10:18 pm to Thracken13
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Walmart did something shady
I hate walley world but this is not on them, their job is to fill the doctors prescriptions, I would tell a pharmacy tech to frick off in an instant if they questioned it be it pain pills or chewable vitamins.
Wal-Mart just has the deepest pockets and FedGov is trying to pry them open leading all the big boys to settle, take way to long to go after all the MD's who are the true culprits in this mess.
Posted on 1/4/21 at 10:20 pm to alajones
Last year (2019) pharmaceutical research and manufacturing of America spent $20M lobbying elected officials. And that doesn't include the "perks" they give out to these elected officials and other decision makers.
Families were being ruined while they all sat back getting their piece of the pie.
Families were being ruined while they all sat back getting their piece of the pie.
Posted on 1/4/21 at 10:23 pm to Thracken13
Wal-Mart can choke on a Bag of D's.
Have spent $.01 in 10 years there
Have spent $.01 in 10 years there
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