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Saturday, May 25, 2013
A Tennessee compounding pharmacy--Main Street Family Pharmacy--Was On Probation in Tennessee!!
1 comment:
Kenneth Woliner, MD
said...
Slaps on the wrist don't stop these rogue pharmacies. Often, an unlicensed businessman will employ supervising pharmacists, paying them more than what they could working in a mill-like atmosphere of Walgreens-type pharmacies. Just as long as that pharmacist signs his name and license number, so this unlicensed manufacturer of drugs (disguised as a pharmacy), can make $$$ manufacturing and wholesaling drugs without the oversight and regulation a manufacturer needs to comply with.
College Pharmacy in Colorado Springs, CO, is on probation for illegally importing and distributing contraband HGH from China. That doesn't stop them from manufacturing and wholesaling other drugs, even the silly "sublingual HCG" which, at 4.5 times larger than insulin, can't be absorbed sublingually (and has been disproven to have any effect on weight loss).
These pharmacies are gambling that no one is going to take the time to file complaints, that the complaints won't be promptly investigated, and for "judicial economy", the pharmacy will be offered a light "Settlement Agreement", of a small fine (which would be far less than the $$$ they made doing manufacturing without a license).
What will stop them? More $$$ in licensure fees for pharmacies to pay for better trained inspectors to come by more often and do more than a cursory glance at the pharmacy, more vigorous enforcement by state departments of health (rather than whitewashing investigations to have less files in the "in-box", and the willingness to suspend/revoke the licenses of not just the pharmacies, but also that of the supervising pharmacists who enabled such dangerous practices related to pharmacy.
Here in Florida, there is so much dysfunction in the Department of Health Bureau of Enforcement, pharmacies (and physicians) can do whatever they want (from Oxycontin pill mills to Biogenesis-type anti-aging clinics doling out anabolic steroids and HGH). By the time the pharmacy has been shut down, the (often unlicensed) owners have made millions.
Perhaps there will be a change in the culture of these bureaucracies, but I'm not holding my breath.
1 comment:
Slaps on the wrist don't stop these rogue pharmacies. Often, an unlicensed businessman will employ supervising pharmacists, paying them more than what they could working in a mill-like atmosphere of Walgreens-type pharmacies. Just as long as that pharmacist signs his name and license number, so this unlicensed manufacturer of drugs (disguised as a pharmacy), can make $$$ manufacturing and wholesaling drugs without the oversight and regulation a manufacturer needs to comply with.
College Pharmacy in Colorado Springs, CO, is on probation for illegally importing and distributing contraband HGH from China. That doesn't stop them from manufacturing and wholesaling other drugs, even the silly "sublingual HCG" which, at 4.5 times larger than insulin, can't be absorbed sublingually (and has been disproven to have any effect on weight loss).
These pharmacies are gambling that no one is going to take the time to file complaints, that the complaints won't be promptly investigated, and for "judicial economy", the pharmacy will be offered a light "Settlement Agreement", of a small fine (which would be far less than the $$$ they made doing manufacturing without a license).
What will stop them? More $$$ in licensure fees for pharmacies to pay for better trained inspectors to come by more often and do more than a cursory glance at the pharmacy, more vigorous enforcement by state departments of health (rather than whitewashing investigations to have less files in the "in-box", and the willingness to suspend/revoke the licenses of not just the pharmacies, but also that of the supervising pharmacists who enabled such dangerous practices related to pharmacy.
Here in Florida, there is so much dysfunction in the Department of Health Bureau of Enforcement, pharmacies (and physicians) can do whatever they want (from Oxycontin pill mills to Biogenesis-type anti-aging clinics doling out anabolic steroids and HGH). By the time the pharmacy has been shut down, the (often unlicensed) owners have made millions.
Perhaps there will be a change in the culture of these bureaucracies, but I'm not holding my breath.
Kenneth Woliner, MD
www.holisticfamilymed.com
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