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the claim in the lawsuits has been that the pharmacies should have recognized "red flags" on prescriptions, such as pill count or refill frequency.
by stevehawk 3y ago
the claim in the lawsuits has been that the pharmacies should have recognized "red flags" on prescriptions, such as pill count or refill frequency.
- 1-6 3y agoPerhaps we're dealing with a situation where the hindsight is clearer than activity in the moment. Not defending Rite Aid but when a drug prescribed by a doctor flows into the system, that's fulfillment of an order to me and I'm not going to go through every medical record to find out whether or not the drug prescribed is valid or not.
- aaomidi 3y agoYeah. Except you legally have to. Not every doctor can prescribe every medication.
- duskwuff 3y agoIt is literally the job of a pharmacist to use their own best judgement when deciding whether to fill prescriptions. That's why you need a Pharm.D to work in that position; if they were just counting pills, they wouldn't need that level of training.
- rented_mule 3y agoOne widely reported macro red flag... in Trumbull County, Ohio, over the course of four years, an average of 400 painkiller pills for each resident of the county were dispensed by the pharmacies operating in that county. 80 million pills in a county of 200,000 people. Lake County, Ohio had 61 million pills dispensed in that period with a little over 200,000 people living there. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/judge-says-pharmacies-owe-2-ohio-counties-650-million-in-opioids-suit https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/judge-says-pharmacies-o...