Posted on 01/17/2025 4:42:42 PM PST by ransomnote
Amazon will be the next up for the legal drug trafficking biz. I wonder if this lawsuit cites anything such as oh idk Ivermectin scripts?
Is Biden getting kickbacks from CVS?
Rite Aid was on the ropes 35 years ago.
Retail can be brutal.
My aunt’s primary care doctor had a sign in his office saying he did not write opioid prescriptions.
He expected surgeons to write all necessary post-surgery prescriptions.
He wasn’t a first-class doctor overall, but he knew about drugs.
RE: Amazon for rx’s
Imagine the porch pirates waiting for the guy they know has the anti-depressants, the lady with the expensive medication
with the $2,000 a month co-pays and so on.
Old number:
In 2023, porch pirates stole over 120 million packages in the United States. This is an increase of about 1 million packages from the previous year.
“I don’t understand why Walgreens and CVS tend to locate across the street from each other.”
I went into drug stores with my mother circa 1995. The pharmacist was always busy, so busy that I would have ruled out pharmacy as a career choice.
Americans might eat a $5 meal, and take $20 worth of pills afterwards.
Pills are normally delivered in the mailbox, but my neighbor had a biological dropped by mistake at my door. I knew enough to take it to him quickly when I returned home.
RE: Pills are normally delivered in the mailbox.
The last time I heard, the Amazon drivers are not allowed to open a mailbox.
At apartment buildings the packages just go on “the porch” to wait for the pirates.
Amazon can us the last stop handoff to the US Postal Service sometimes. Not always. “Last mile delivery” disdained by he consumers who used Amazon to NOT deal with the US Postal Service.
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If a doctor issues a prescription, it isn’t the job of the pharmacist to question whether it’s medically necessary. That’s between the doctor and the patient. They aren’t doctors, and have no authority when it comes to deciding who needs what drugs. Besides, with the HIPPA laws, people’s health records are supposed to be private. No pharmacist has access to a person’s health records, and the DOJ isn’t medically qualified to determine if a script is necessary or not.
Total BS. The DoJ is practicing medicine. They are doing a horrible job of it.
Prescription opioids have plummeted with opioid deaths have increased. Prescription opioids are de facto illegal. Now post op patients and terminal CA patients have a lot of trouble getting opioids for pain control.
BS. Pure revenge for Walgreens closing stores in the hood.
And conveniently times to set up yet another Trump bashing narrative.
” Trump drops Walgreens case proving he hates blacks and wants them addicted to opioids and unable to fill their prescriptions in the hood.”
In all of U.S. history, I do not believe that there has ever been an administration go rogue in its closing months in the way that the Biden minions have done. The cages have been opened and the flying monkeys have been released.
Real addicts of these drugs can skirt the seeming “illegalities” by having residences, temporary or otherwise, in more than one state, with doctors in each state, and often different doctors in the same state and all while using different pharmacies - the left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing. I knew a guy who was taking multiple opiod pain killers daily, with prescriptions from different doctors in Kansas and Illinois that he was careful to have filled by different pharmacies for each doctor.
This is payback for closing the ghetto stores.
This is a BS case. Pharmacies do not review medical records nor determine the appropriateness of prescriptions That is the prescribing physician’s responsibility.
This case should be tossed. It is a blatant money grab. It would be interesting to see how much congress critters own in competitor’s stock.
Sounds like a nationwide pill mill. Probably the top dog is named, “Hunter”. Of course, 10% to the Big Guy.
Yes cause cvs is was the drug store of choice
Aint that right seniors here who only had that option until this year.
That's why CVS register receipts are 3 feet long - they print out dozens of coupons that, if used in the store, will bring their price down to double WalMart's price for the same item.
I am a pharmacist now retired. I had a few “hot scripts” and immediately called the doctor for verification if this was a good script. If not a good script I would tell the patient we do not have the medication to fill the whole script, but our shipment will be in shortly and come back in a couple of hours. I then called the local cop shop and asked them to come over in plains cloths and drink coffee until the perp showed up. I well remember one as he said to the cop, “I really F up. The cop said, “yes you did.”
One other was somewhat amusing. The perp took the narcotics and paid. Thus total chain of custody and and dead right guilty. I said thank you and introduced him to the officer that took him away in handcuffs.
Once I had a strange arrest. I got a hot script called in by telephone from and individual pretending it was a doctors office. I knew it was hot. I filled the script and called the cops. Oddly the mayors daughter showed up to pick up the script. She was arrested and broke into tears. I knew something was wrong. It was the mayors secretary that called in the fake script and asked the mayors daughter to pick it up. The secretary had a prior and went straight to jail for such. I called the mayor and apologized and he was understanding.
I then had enough of retail pharmacy. I went to clinical pharmacy in a hospital and used my skills for good. I was a pretty damn good hospital clinical pharmacist for 30 years.
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