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I just sat in on a lunch presentation with a Pfizer rep But hey, free lunch.
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My Imaginary GF posted:Perhaps some form of incentivizing individuals to return unused drugs would be a good policy intervention? Package pills in single-use containers, pay individuals to return the unused portions, prescribe the unused portions to individuals on medical assistance. You can't regift drugs after they've left the pharmacy. Unit dose maybe, but even then it varies. Takeback programs are only now expanding beyond law enforcement. Until very recently pharmacies were not allowed to take controlled substances back. Edit: People already explained it better than I did. But the real problem isn't the FDA, it's the DEA. Doubling down on failed policies isn't helping anyone. reagan fucked around with this message at 02:05 on Jun 2, 2016 |
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Loving the pharmacy education in here. Respect.
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:How well do doctors respond when the pharmacist calls up and says hey you hosed up. In the hospital some are gracious, others are dicks. Just like everyone else in life. At least in the hospital I have access to the full chart, and functions of the EMR that the doc doesn't have.
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Pharmacist viewpoint: Antidepressants are some dark age poo poo compared to drugs for lets say, infectious diseases or hypertension. Do they work? Yes. Do they work for everyone? No. Do we have room for improvement? Lots.
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Konstantin posted:Walgreens and CVS are enabling this as well by selling 200 pill packs. There is no way someone using the product as intended could need that much. You've clearly never suffered from Crohn's or some other GI malady. poo poo is awful.
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Ytlaya posted:You know how opioids make you constipated? Imodium is just an opioid that doesn't cross the blood brain barrier (in normal therapeutic doses). So it's not as strange as the headline makes it sound, since all opioid drugs do literally the same thing as Imodium to your GI system. Loperamide used to be a schedule II controlled substance. The entire DEA scheduling system is garbage, but this one always makes me laugh.
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tetrapyloctomy posted:This being based on a rat study makes me pause. 3mg/kg LD50 for fentanyl? 300mcg total IVP is enough to render the average person completely apneic in my clinical experience. Sure, it's short acting, but that'll last long enough for hypoxemia and that fun spiral into a brady-down code even in a pre-oxygenated patient. If it is being injected into a rat tail, is it forming a depot and throwing their results off? Alternative: Hilarious typo?
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May 26, 2017 15:08
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On a similar note, my hospital was dispensing naloxone kits and now we are having issues with the police confiscating them. I have since left, but this is a very well known tourist city in the land of 10k lakes that is hardest hit by the opioid epidemic.
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Jun 30, 2017 16:37
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Subvisual Haze posted:Declaring something is a problem is a long way from proposing solutions, and further still from allocating money to implement real changes. Somehow they will make dealing with C2s even more time consuming. On some of my shifts I spend a non-insignificant amount of time counting pills in the narc safe. A good use of my time, for sure.
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Gobbeldygook posted:Using manufacturing quotas to cap production would be insane and unworkable. The end result would be pharmacy's raising prices on everybody. One cancer patient going on TV and explaining that they can no longer afford their painkillers because the DEA decided to cut the supply and it's over. ? There already are manufacturing quotas. This isn't a new thing.
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tetrapyloctomy posted:No, we reverse fentanyl with naloxone all the time. So that is where that stupid dose came from? One of those ED/trauma blogs?
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