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A range of designer drugs known as bath salts is the subject of a federal bill as lawmakers and enforcers scramble to close loopholes in regulating an evolving substance.
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Surescripts and NACDS have confirmed… Arizona is now the 36th state to be fully enabled to send and accept e-prescriptions of controlled substances in numerous pharmacies statewide. Start e-prescribing Schedule II – V (III – V) drugs NOW!
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K2, Spice, Blaze and Red X Dawn are some of the products mentioned below and users smoke the contents for the buzz. Emergency rooms across the US have been experiencing patients with over doses of the “fake pot”. High blood pressure, elevated heart rates, vomiting are some of the side effects...
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When you look at the website though instead of the recall having center stage first I see the notice about the “biggest healthcare spinoff in US history” listed and when you go further down you do see the recall notice on the page. When it comes to news, spinoff trumps recalls and potential dangers...
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Thu, Dec 30 2010
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When economic times get tough there’s always someone out there to take advantage and in this case fraud was taking place when patients would fill their prescriptions and sell them to a local drug dealer who was reselling their prescriptions on the street. Medicaid pays and the crooks get the resell...
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Wed, Dec 8 2010
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The Sanofi plant in Kansas City is now closed as they failed to find a buyer for the plant but prior to the closure, an employee of the waste company contracted to take care of the waste product made from the manufacturing sold the pharmaceutical grade of pseudoephedrine powder sold it to criminals who...
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Sun, Dec 5 2010
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In case you missed it this was the first attempt to allow consumers to dump unused and expired drugs, no questions asked. They were smart in Long Beach and set up a drive through operation-throw out the drugs. DEA Heads Up First Ever Nationwide Prescription Drug Take Back Day–No Questions Asked...
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Tue, Sep 28 2010
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The group has actually been conducting the FDA approved testing since 2004. Other countries have studies doing about the same thing. So far since 2004, 21 patients have been treated in the study. The funding for the study comes from the Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies...
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The press release states there are no questions asked and this is completely anonymous and has listings on their site for all the locations. I tried in Orange County and found none, but the site said more locations will be added between now and then. I checked an Arizona Zip code in Phoenix...
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Here we go again with drugs stolen and then even sold back to the pharmacies who don’t realize that the drugs were stolen in the first place. It’s no wonder I had so many pharmacists very “high” on having prescription drugs bar coded and tagged is this is also good for recall information too. ...
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Fri, Jul 16 2010
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This is kind of interesting as to what has been revealed here with Dr. Chao writing a number of controlled substance prescriptions to himself, and I assume it is him since the name is the same unless by a wild chance the doctor has a patient who is a doctor by the same name, but not likely. ...
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Wed, Jul 14 2010
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Four pharmacy organizations say they support the Drug Enforcement Administration’s efforts to allow electronic prescribing of controlled substances but called for further clarification on the new e-prescribing rule, Modern Healthcare reports. On March 31, DEA published in the Federal Register …...
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This is pretty neat as someone has worked with the Microsoft Tag API and created a site where it does all the work for you. I have created my own tags which involves a few steps and they are on the right hand side of the blog under resources to practice with, shoot aim and watch. The tag...
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Thu, Jun 3 2010
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The same technology I have been talking about for use with medical device and drug recalls for consumers and medical staff to be able to scan with their cell phones is also a potential solution that can be used for compliance with the new DEA rules for authenticating a prescribing physician. Bob...
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Tue, Jun 1 2010
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I never really thought much about this but it seems true that the VA is in the middle of all of this until federal laws and state laws reach a happy medium along the line here. The culture on pot has certainly changed a lot over the years and somehow I think some of the stronger and powerful anti...
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Thu, Apr 1 2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, Prescriptions, VA, DEA, Heatlhcare, Medications, Stress, Pain Relief, Pot, Veterans, -e-prescribing