Seems like pharmacies should just be filling prescriptions (and letting you know about any possible interactions/side effects) and the doctors should be the ones held accountable for writing prescriptions that shouldn’t be filled and/or are abused like Opioids except in the cases of early filling etc. which would be the pharmacies responsibility to refuse and have the customer wait the prescribed time. The government paid them not to fill Ivermectin for Covid and now is busting them for Opioid overuse. Seems like a shake down. They want pharmacies to police the doctors on some drugs but take orders from the government on others. It is another systemic issue in our medical system where care is no longer the objective and money and performance metrics is driving the standards of care. And passing the blame for the Opioid epidemic from pharmaceutical companies, who knowingly pushed addictive drugs onto the market targeting disadvantaged areas of the country, to the companies that filled the prescriptions doctors wrote. Purdue Pharma is one of the culprits, they have multiple TV series on Netflix/Hulu etc. describing what they knowingly did to get people addicted to their pain meds. And these pharma companies just end up paying minuscule fines while the owners walk free from any criminal culpability with their fortune. The real victims are the people that get addicted who will never see a dime of any of the money the government collects.
Big pharma paid 3rd party pharmacy regulators to overlook things like this. I opine that the opioid epidemic was just another way to reduce the population. It’s the same thing that the FDA did by leaving dangerous drugs on the market such as Vioxx. Vioxx was allowed to kill 100,000 people and it took years to get it removed. Then we found out that Merck knew of the risks during the trials, but hid it. Did anyone go to prison for it? Nope. Just like no one from Pfizer went to prison and just had to pay a $2.3 billion fine.
Just like we’re now finding out that Pfizer hid more deaths during the Rona trial.
Not CVS, but my parents live in a rural area with a local hospital. The hospital recently moved into a new building with their own pharmacy. Yes, it's convenient. But the pharmacy 2 miles away has been owned by the same family for 3 generations.
It’s always about the Benjamins!! Yet, this does take on a new level of demented dereliction of duty to preserve human life. What a sad state of affairs!
I'm a little uneasy with the whole Vengeance by Regulators thing. As Alice pointed out, not a single actual victim of CVS' actions will see ANY relief. Schadenfreude does not pay for rehab. Also, what about all the other corporate pharmacies? I bet Walgreens is up to their eyebrows in this. Do they get the Federal Treatment as well? Or are their lobbyists better? This will actually punish the low level employees at CVS while anyone with actual responsibility will have already cashed in their stock options and moved on. All because they want us dead.
It would tickle me pink if they went out of business. I would feel the same way if we could go back to local pharmacies.
The corporate pharmacies must end. We can help by cutting back on the pills we consume.
Seems like pharmacies should just be filling prescriptions (and letting you know about any possible interactions/side effects) and the doctors should be the ones held accountable for writing prescriptions that shouldn’t be filled and/or are abused like Opioids except in the cases of early filling etc. which would be the pharmacies responsibility to refuse and have the customer wait the prescribed time. The government paid them not to fill Ivermectin for Covid and now is busting them for Opioid overuse. Seems like a shake down. They want pharmacies to police the doctors on some drugs but take orders from the government on others. It is another systemic issue in our medical system where care is no longer the objective and money and performance metrics is driving the standards of care. And passing the blame for the Opioid epidemic from pharmaceutical companies, who knowingly pushed addictive drugs onto the market targeting disadvantaged areas of the country, to the companies that filled the prescriptions doctors wrote. Purdue Pharma is one of the culprits, they have multiple TV series on Netflix/Hulu etc. describing what they knowingly did to get people addicted to their pain meds. And these pharma companies just end up paying minuscule fines while the owners walk free from any criminal culpability with their fortune. The real victims are the people that get addicted who will never see a dime of any of the money the government collects.
Big pharma paid 3rd party pharmacy regulators to overlook things like this. I opine that the opioid epidemic was just another way to reduce the population. It’s the same thing that the FDA did by leaving dangerous drugs on the market such as Vioxx. Vioxx was allowed to kill 100,000 people and it took years to get it removed. Then we found out that Merck knew of the risks during the trials, but hid it. Did anyone go to prison for it? Nope. Just like no one from Pfizer went to prison and just had to pay a $2.3 billion fine.
Just like we’re now finding out that Pfizer hid more deaths during the Rona trial.
Death is the feature not the bug.
Not CVS, but my parents live in a rural area with a local hospital. The hospital recently moved into a new building with their own pharmacy. Yes, it's convenient. But the pharmacy 2 miles away has been owned by the same family for 3 generations.
Corruption on steroids.
It’s always about the Benjamins!! Yet, this does take on a new level of demented dereliction of duty to preserve human life. What a sad state of affairs!
I'm a little uneasy with the whole Vengeance by Regulators thing. As Alice pointed out, not a single actual victim of CVS' actions will see ANY relief. Schadenfreude does not pay for rehab. Also, what about all the other corporate pharmacies? I bet Walgreens is up to their eyebrows in this. Do they get the Federal Treatment as well? Or are their lobbyists better? This will actually punish the low level employees at CVS while anyone with actual responsibility will have already cashed in their stock options and moved on. All because they want us dead.