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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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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 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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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 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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Mon, Aug 23 2010
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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 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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When you watch how much he had taken to go to sleep, sad. It does put the doctor in an odd spot with a patient who demands and wants, and the doctor who advises, and I am sure nobody in their wildest dream every expected the sad outcome. BD An official says that the L.A. County coroner...
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Tue, Aug 25 2009
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It is illegal to write a prescription to a known alias name, but I wonder how does this play out if a prescription was written for a “dead” person? Obviously the dead person is not in need of any drugs last I knew, but legally I wonder how this would be interpreted. Nothing seems to be surprising...
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Wed, Jul 29 2009
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I hope this is the end of where she worked, started out in one state, Colorado and now spread to two other states, Texas and New York. Hospital Employee Injected Patient Drugs and Replaced Syringe content with Saline Solution The hospital hired her even though they knew she had hepatitis and had...
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Fri, Jul 17 2009
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After having read a few articles, what I find interesting here is the fact that several of them relate to the fact that doctors use electronic medical records, well maybe, but they seem to rely on the fact that Michael Jackson’s medical history will inherently be found in one of them, do you think? I...
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This is another one of those scary stories with a worker who took the injections herself instead of giving the medication to the patient, then filled the syringe with saline for the patient. The problem is the syringes were not sterilized and she had hepatitis C from an old drug habit. It...
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Sat, Jul 4 2009
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