AVMA responds to Reuters' special report – Vets face ...
atwork.avma.org/.../avma-resp...American Veterinary Medical Association5 days ago - Your article “Vets face conflicting loyalties to animals, farmers – and drugfirms” clearly questions the integrity of doctors of veterinary medicine and their motives.
Sunday, December 28, 2014
AVMA responds to Reuters' special report – Vets face Conflicting Loyalties to Animals, Farmers, and Drug firms
Reuters:SPECIAL REPORT-Vets face conflicting loyalties to animals, farmers - and drug firms
(This runs with two sidebars: Connections between drug makers and educators abound and For vets association, transparency is an internal matter ID: For more Reuters Special Reports, double-click on )
By Duff Wilson and Mimi Dwyer
Dec 23 (Reuters) - In 2016, a new U.S. Food and Drug Administration policy will give veterinarians a key role in combating a surge in antibiotic-resistant "superbugs" that infect humans. For the first time, the agency will require veterinarians, not farmers, to decide whenever antibiotics used by people are given to animals.
Pharmacy techs stealing drugs, records show
Pharmacy techs stealing drugs, records show - WorldNews
article.wn.com/view/.../Pharmacy_techs_stealing_drugs_records_show/8 hours ago - OKLAHOMA CITY — In January, the Oklahoma State Board of Pharmacy got off to a fast start, handling some of its most serious, unusual cases of the year.>
Twelve of Medicare's top 20 prescribers of Schedule II drugs in 2012 have faced disciplinary actions by their state medical boards or criminal charges related to their medical practices.
Posted On: December 24, 2014
Doctors Overprescribe Dangerous Drugs to Medicare Patients
Despite increasing awareness of prescription drug abuse over the last several years, too many Medicare patients have been prescribed potent controlled substances, and certain doctors regularly write these prescriptions even though they’ve been scrutinized by medical boards.
A study by the investigative news site ProPublica for 2012 found that Medicare covered nearly 27 million prescriptions for powerful painkillers and stimulants with the highest potential for abuse and dependence. That's an increase of 9% from 2011. In that period, Medicare prescriptions overall increased 5%.
The reporters found that:
- Twelve of Medicare's top 20 prescribers of Schedule II drugs in 2012 have faced disciplinary actions by their state medical boards or criminal charges related to their medical practices. (Schedule II drugs have a high potential for abuse and can lead to severe psychological or physical dependence. They are considered dangerous and include, methamphetamine, methadone, hydromorphone (Dilaudid), meperidine (Demerol), oxycodone (OxyContin), fentanyl, Dexedrine, Adderall, and Ritalin.)
- In 2012, 269 providers wrote at least 3,000 prescriptions for Schedule II drugs. (Florida led the country with 52 providers. Tennessee had 25, and North Carolina, Ohio, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Alabama and Kentucky each had more than 10.)
- About 1 in 5 doctors who wrote at least 3,000 prescriptions for Schedule II drugs have faced some kind of sanction or investigation.
- Medicare did not analyze its own data or take action against providers whose patterns were troubling, even if they had been charged with Medicare fraud or kicked out of state Medicare programs.
- more
Surge in illegal sales of drugs as gangs exploit ‘phenomenal market’ online Gangs using smartphone apps and social media to sell erectile dysfunction drugs and slimming pills at low risk and high profit
The rise of social media and greater internet access through smartphones are factors behind a huge rise in illicit sales of pharmaceuticals, according to the chief enforcement official at Britain’s medicines regulator.
Criminal gangs have become adept at using social media to sell “lifestyle” drugs to a mass market at minimal risk and cost, said Alastair Jeffrey, head of enforcement at the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency(MHRA). This year, he said the MHRA had seized 1.2m doses of illegally supplied erectile dysfunction drugs, 383,000 slimming products and 331,000 doses of sleeping pills, tranquillisers and antidepressants – mostly originating from China and India. For the first time, the MHRA pursued YouTube accounts and removed 18,671 videos that directed viewers to websites offering illicit drugs.
Proceedings of the first Symposium on Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics: held at the School of Veterinary Medicine, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, March 13-15, 1978 (must be purchased0
Proceedings of the first Symposium on Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics: held at the School of Veterinary Medicine, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, March 13-15, 1978
Book Shows Conflict Between Veterinarians and Pharmacists and Who Does What When it Comes to Compounding
What Should a Veterinarian Do? - Page 88
https://books.google.com/books?id=zntIAQAAIAAJ1972 - Snippet viewVeterinarians have objected to pharmacists prescribing directly for animal ills, and pharmacists have objected to veterinarians compounding and selling drugs. At this moment in history, however, it should be obvious, both within the profession ...
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