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sandensea
(21,530 posts)The GOP learned two big lessons from Iran-Cocaine-Contra: narcotics makes a lot of money - that you can use for both personal and political needs; and you can get away with it.
Cyrano
(15,023 posts)Initech
(99,915 posts)White billionaire gets the entire world addicted to dangerous and deadly narcotics - he's a job creator!
LittleGirl
(8,261 posts)MadLinguist
(781 posts)Cheezus, what a stack of shit this fuqqer is
Callmecrazy
(3,065 posts)He didn't prescribe those drugs, he filled the scripts.
He was doing his job. It's the doctors you have to look at. It's upsetting how the opioid crises has destroyed lives and families, but concentrate your anger in the right direction.
Dorn
(520 posts)Millions of prescriptions for a killer drug in a small city is "not doing his job", it is corruption.
Callmecrazy
(3,065 posts)It is the doctors responsibility to do no harm. The pharmacist only checks for drug interactions between the medications you are taking.
Direct your anger where it belongs.
Ingersollman
(204 posts)more than enough anger and responsibility to go around. He,(the pharmacy owner), may not, as you say, have the "responsibility to do no harm", but he had to know there was something bad going on. That sure didn't stop him from lining his greedy pockets off of the deaths of people.
Dorn
(520 posts)From the APhA (https://www.pharmacist.com/code-ethics)
A pharmacist respects the covenantal relationship between the patient and pharmacist.
Considering the patient-pharmacist relationship as a covenant means that a pharmacist has moral obligations in response to the gift of trust received from society. In return for this gift, a pharmacist promises to help individuals achieve optimum benefit from their medications, to be committed to their welfare, and to maintain their trust.
I am disgusted by the drug companies, the physicians, the pharmacists and those who defend any of those killers.
TwilightZone
(25,342 posts)Pharmacists also check (whenever possible) for excess usage, misuse, etc., and can decline to fill prescriptions in those instances. They usually discuss the situation with the doctors, but they do, in fact, have the authority to refuse to fill them.
My partner is a pharmacist. Situations like that happen quite frequently. Patient tries to fill multiple prescriptions, patient brings in scripts from multiple doctors, patient tries to refill before eligible dates, etc. Checking for those things is a significant role in their jobs.
PatSeg
(46,804 posts)Again, as a physician, let me tell you. What I see in my practice, from any level of marijuana use, is bad, Abraham stated. Im against recreational, Im against medical. In the medical profession, for these chronic pain, poor cancer patients that need help, we have other alternatives that work better, Dilaudid, OxyContin, you name it, Oxycodone, we have several options that do a much better job for chronic pain.
Ive had hundreds of patients unfortunately with cancer that Ive treated, they do well with these drugs, he continued.
https://www.bayoubrief.com/2019/08/28/pharmland-ralph-abraham-opiods/?fbclid=IwAR0apEf-xMlWpxtapuRqeyonlBZLCBBz-RW3LSQ35nN4YSWt68rL688twX8
His pharmacies not only fill the prescriptions, but as a doctor he prescribes them.
MrScorpio
(73,626 posts)He would be more analogous to an El Chapo or a Pablo Escobar than some neighborhood dealer.
NoMoreRepugs
(9,260 posts)Indykatie
(3,691 posts)With abuse this egregious there will be other possible criminal behavior that involves patients, doctors, manufacturers or pharmacy employees.
yuiyoshida
(41,764 posts)bkdroid13
(11 posts)awesome video.
Ilsa
(61,675 posts)his downfall, maybe? Could he affect a case against himself?