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Re:Court Filings Say Corporations Fed Opioid Epidemic by harimau777 on Saturday July 20, 2019 @03:33AM (#20484607)
Pharmacists' job includes watching for mistakes in what the MDs choose to prescribe. That's why they are required to go through a challenging college program and get licensed.
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Re:Court Filings Say Corporations Fed Opioid Epidemic by lotsofpulp on Saturday July 20, 2019 @07:09AM (#20485145)
This isn’t about doctors making mistakes, this is about doctors intentionally prescribing opioids to people who want them just to get high. How is a pharmacist supposed to know who has legitimate pain versus those who don’t? That conversation happens between the patient and the doctor.

The only way you would know is do you had a system wide view and could see which doctors are prescribing abnormally high amounts of opioids, not something in the purview of a pharmacy.

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Re:Court Filings Say Corporations Fed Opioid Epidemic by dhdidhdu on Saturday July 20, 2019 @12:26PM (#20486673)
When your county is devastated by opioids and your pharmacy sells more opioids than your entire state should be reasonably consuming [0] maybe alarms bells should ring.

[0] happened in WV

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