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Monday, July 28, 2014
FedEx charges raise online pharmacy issues
SAN FRANCISCO — FedEx Corp., the latest company accused in a federal probe involving illegal online pharmacies, says it will fight the charges that it knowingly shipped drugs to people who lack valid prescriptions.
The company says it would have to invade the privacy of customers to stop such deliveries. By contrast, UPS Inc. paid $40 million last year to resolve similar allegations and vowed to overhaul its procedures and work with investigators to detect suspicious activity. The contrasting responses to the decade-long federal probe of the prescription drug black market underscore the difficulty shippers have in determining how far to go to ferret out illicit online pharmacies among their customers and to alert the government. Wall Street analysts, legal experts, anti-drug crusaders and the companies themselves are split on the issue.
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The company says it would have to invade the privacy of customers to stop such deliveries. By contrast, UPS Inc. paid $40 million last year to resolve similar allegations and vowed to overhaul its procedures and work with investigators to detect suspicious activity. The contrasting responses to the decade-long federal probe of the prescription drug black market underscore the difficulty shippers have in determining how far to go to ferret out illicit online pharmacies among their customers and to alert the government. Wall Street analysts, legal experts, anti-drug crusaders and the companies themselves are split on the issue.
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Missouri Pharmacy Association Blog: A New Age for Tramadol
A New Age for Tramadol
Big news has once again hit the world of pharmacy recently: Tramadol is now scheduled as a schedule IV controlled substance in all states according to the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA).1 On July 2, 2014 the DEA announced this update in the Federal Register.2 Tramadol and any product containing the substance will require a “C-IV” notification on all its labels as of August 18, 2014.1 Schedule IV is “defined as drugs with a low potential for abuse and low risk of dependence” according to the DEA.3
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