High Importance!! Must Read! FDA alerts health care professionals and patients not to use compounded drugs from Cantrell Drug Company; agency seeks action to stop production and distribution

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is alerting health care professionals and patients not to use drug products produced by Cantrell Drug Company of Little Rock, Arkansas, including opioid products and other drugs intended for sterile injection, that were produced by the company and distributed nationwide. The agency is concerned about serious deficiencies in Cantrell’s compounding operations, including its processes to ensure quality and sterility assurance that put patient safety at risk. Administration of contaminated or otherwise poor quality drug products can result in serious and life-threatening injury or death. Continue reading.

Kohll's Pharmacy is sentenced in conspiracy to boost racehorses' performance

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Arkansas May Require Pharmacy Benefit Manager Licenses

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Cantrell Drug Company Files for a Temporary Restraining Order against the FDA

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Veterinarian, pharmacy sentenced for racehorse doping scheme

Bristol Herald Courier (press release) (blog)

Evidence in the trial showed the pharmacy, which operated as Essential Pharmacy Compounding, and others conspired to distribute a synthetic form

Firefighter expected to plea Thursday in state health benefits fraud case

Press of Atlantic City

Since then, 15 people have agreed to federal plea deals in a prescription drug ring that involved recruiters faxing fraudulent prescriptions for expensive, unneeded compounded drugs to an out-of-state compounding pharmacy. The recruiters specifically targeted public 

Witness: 'I paid a lot of taxes' on $1.8M earned from compounded medicines

Hattiesburg American

Schaar, 47, of Biloxi said Diaz agreed to sign copies of pre-printed prescriptions for patients he had never seen. The compounded medications prescribed by Diaz — pain and scar creams and accompanying vitamins — added

Video evidence: Doctor wrote prescriptions without evaluating patients

WBRC FOX6 News - WBRC.com

According to Louis Norville, Internal Revenue Service special agent, records showed that Diaz was one of the top prescribers of compoundedmedications. The Food Drug and Administration describes compoundingas a combination, mix or alteration of ingredients of a drug to make

Video evidence: Doctor wrote prescriptions without evaluating patients

WBRC FOX6 News - WBRC.com

According to Louis Norville, Internal Revenue Service special agent, records showed that Diaz was one of the top prescribers of compoundedmedications. The Food Drug and Administration describes compoundingas a combination, mix or alteration of ingredients of a drug to make

Margate firefighter received $1.7M for role in state health benefits fraud

Press of Atlantic City

Done correctly, there is no law that prohibits an individual from receiving a commission from a compoundingpharmacy for marketing products to other individuals. Mike Sher, however, did not do everything correctly, and for this, he is going to pay a significant price,"