Saturday, December 22, 2018

Report: Distributors, DEA failed to abate US opioid crisis

The Daily Times-18 hours ago
McKesson shipped an average of 9,650 hydrocodone pills per day in 2007 to a now-closed pharmacy in Kermit, which has a population of about 400

Congressional Report Finds Millions of Opioids Sent to Small-Town ...

The Epoch Times-4 hours ago
Nearly nine million opioids were shipped to a single pharmacy in the small town of Kermit, West Virginia, population 406, in just two years, according to a 

Compounding pharmacy officials now face murder charges linked to ...

The Boston Globe-13 hours ago
Michigan's attorney general has filed second-degree murder charges against a pharmacist and the cofounder of a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy at the ...

Michigan charges pharmacists linked to 2012 meningitis outbreak | Reuter

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-massachusetts-meningitis/michigan-charges-pharmacists-linked-to-2012-meningitis-outbreak-idUSKCN1OK2I8?fbclid=IwAR2x0xgKU774BLHPXrvUW8zTwpadnabm_3gRZPFqMpxj23ju6OnElEys1Aw

Friday, December 21, 2018

Pharmacy benefit manager agrees to records examination

Lewiston Morning Tribune-13 hours ago
Prime applied for a license, but it was denied because the pharmacy benefits manager would not provide information about its contracts and pricing data to state 

8 pharmacy owners, marketers charged in $9.1M kickback scheme

Becker's Hospital Review-Dec 20, 2018
The scheme involved illegal kickbacks on about $92 million in compounded drug claims. Fort Worth, Texas, residents Richard Hall, Scott Schuster, Dustin Rall,

Government Achieves Another Round of Convictions in New England ...

Lexology-10 hours ago
In an alert last week, we noted that FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb had already stressed that compounding and compounded drugs were an area targeted for ..
REMINDER: New Fingerprints Required for ALL Pharmacy Technicians Registered Before June 2015

Beginning in January 2019, pharmacy technicians who registered with the Texas State Board of Pharmacy (TSBP) before June 1, 2015 will need to complete a new fingerprinting session before completing their next renewal.

To check your initial registration date, please click hereYou can search by registration number or by name if you do not know your registration number.

Visit the fingerprint session information page here. It outlines the new fingerprinting session requirements and how to complete them early if you would like.

Visit the FAQs for Fingerprinting page here. The FAQ goes into more detail regarding the fingerprinting requirements and offers several resources for you to get started.

TSBP's General Counsel on the Front Lines of the Opioid Crisis


Hundreds of lawyers are involved in the opioid crisis. Each represents various corporate interests or injured plaintiffs seeking to sue, and all of them expect to be paid big money.

Then there is Kerstin Arnold, who may be the single most important Texas lawyer involved in the opioid epidemic.

As general counsel of the Texas State Board of Pharmacy, Arnold is arguably the most influential and knowledgeable attorney on issues of public health and the pharmaceutical industry in Texas.

Read the full article from the Houston Chronicle here.