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It is absolutely a pharmacy and pharmacists job to understand and monitor what drugs are being prescribed to their patients, and intervene in cases of harm.

• lotsofpulp 7y ago
  How is a pharmacist supposed to know if an opioid is legitimate or not? Anyone can claim to have a pain issue and if the opioid isn’t mixed with other problematic medicines, what other indication does a pharmacist have that the doctor is dealing drugs?
  • Simon_says 7y ago
    Technically the pharmacist is dealing drugs.
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  • 50656E6973 7y ago
    According to the article, the alarm bells should be going off when there are obviously absurd amounts of drugs are being ordered. >The Walgreens employee was bewildered by the quantity of opioids the company was shipping to just one store. Its pharmacy in Port Richey, Fla. (population 2,831) was ordering 3,271 bottles of oxycodone a month. From another article on the same topic: >The company sold 6.4m pills to the small pharmacy, notorious in a town of about 3,000 people for the long lines of out of state cars at its drive-through window. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/19/opioids-crisis-appalachia-painkillers-drugs https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/19/opioids-cris...
  • dhdidhdu 7y ago
    “How is a pharmacist supposed to know if an opioid is legitimate or not? ” Any single prescription, there is no way. But if your selling enough pain pills to give everyone in your county 10 daily doses, perhaps you should call the state attorney general.