Thursday, May 1, 2014

Must Read: Consent Agreement Arizonia Board of Pharmacy and CBS Chem, Ltd. transactions involving Diamondback, Speciality Pharmacy Cedar Park, Texas, etc.

NABP has issued a report stressing that illegal online drug sellers are the most frequent conduits of counterfeit drugs and pose a continued threat to global public health.

As detailed in the Internet Drug Outlet Identification Program Progress Report for State and Federal Regulators: April 2014 (PDF), most of these rogue Internet drug outlets sell prescription drug products directly to consumers without requiring a valid prescription.

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The Washington Post For more states, execution means improvisation as drug supplies dwindle

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Oklahoma’s bungled execution of convicted murderer Clayton Lockett on Tuesday was, in some ways, a medical experiment gone wrong.
In recent years, as pharmaceutical companies have halted sales of drugs used in executions, as legal challenges have mounted and medical groups have vowed to ostracize doctors who participate in sanctioned killings, states have found themselves winging it when it comes to carrying out lethal injections.
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Texas 'Has No Plans' to Use Drug From Botched Oklahoma Execution



Update: After Tuesday night's botched execution in Oklahoma, Texas corrections officials say they have no plans to use midazolam in future executions. Midazolam was the first component of a three-drug cocktail administered to death row inmate Clayton Lockett yesterday. Read more about the execution here.
As KUT first reported in February, the state has supplies of midazolam on hand. But the Texas Department of Criminal Justice says in a statement that it "has no plans to change our procedures. Texas does not use the same drugs as Oklahoma as we use a single lethal dose of pentobarbital and we have done so since 2012.”

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