Comments on: Congress Wants To Restrict Some Internet Sales http://www.pharmalot.com/2008/06/congress-wants-to-restrict-some-internet-sales/ News, Comment and Conversation Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:40:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Sam http://www.pharmalot.com/2008/06/congress-wants-to-restrict-some-internet-sales/#comment-363940 Sam Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:45:29 +0000 http://www.pharmalot.com/?p=14293#comment-363940 It seems strange to me that if you are a legitimate pharmacy in a State you must be compliant with that State's and Federal controlled substance and DEA laws and regulations. We question patients if they use up too many doses in a shorter time period than they were suppose to last. They will offer to pay cash instead of using their insurance which has rejected their refill request. We refuse the cash offer because this customer is clearly abusing the use of the drug. When a new patient comes in for a narcotic Rx we are suspicious when the patient lives 10 miles from our pharmacy and goes 40 miles to the doctor to get the Rx. There must be at least 30 pharmacies closer to where they live. The public does not realize how many phony prescriptions are brought to local pharmacies. Local pharmacies share this information and contact the physician whose Rx blank is being used. Internet pharmacies must be registered by a Federal Agency and must be just as compliant to State laws and regulation of that State and FDA and DEA regulations. They should also be professionally responsible to prevent the abuse of these drugs. Continuing pain management should not be managed by the patient, but by their physician. It seems strange to me that if you are a legitimate pharmacy in a State
you must be compliant with that State’s and Federal controlled
substance and DEA laws and regulations. We question patients if
they use up too many doses in a shorter time period than they were
suppose to last. They will offer to pay cash instead of using their
insurance which has rejected their refill request. We refuse the cash
offer because this customer is clearly abusing the use of the drug.

When a new patient comes in for a narcotic Rx we are suspicious when the patient lives 10 miles from our pharmacy and goes 40 miles to the doctor to get the Rx. There must be at least 30 pharmacies closer to where they live.

The public does not realize how many phony prescriptions are
brought to local pharmacies. Local pharmacies share this information
and contact the physician whose Rx blank is being used.

Internet pharmacies must be registered by a Federal Agency and must
be just as compliant to State laws and regulation of that State and
FDA and DEA regulations. They should also be professionally
responsible to prevent the abuse of these drugs.

Continuing pain management should not be managed by the patient,
but by their physician.

]]> By: John Peters http://www.pharmalot.com/2008/06/congress-wants-to-restrict-some-internet-sales/#comment-363558 John Peters Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:55:43 +0000 http://www.pharmalot.com/?p=14293#comment-363558 It's also worth thinking why people are turning to cheap(er) painkillers from online pharmacies in the first place. Realists will be right and cynics wrong to say that much is purchased and then sold on the black market. The real focusis that patients in pain, require aggressive and continuing pain management solutions, to afford them some QOL - wherever their meds come from. Anyone who has been in pain or who lives with/looks after someone with chronic pain knows this oh so well. If restrictions on docs, and from Health Plans and indeed doc concerns about potentially being witch hunted as drug pushers do not allow for creative and modulated prescribing, then patients will find their own ways to try to find some semblance of a normal life. It’s also worth thinking why people are turning to cheap(er) painkillers from online pharmacies in the first place.
Realists will be right and cynics wrong to say that much is purchased and then sold on the black market.
The real focusis that patients in pain, require aggressive and continuing pain management solutions, to afford them some QOL - wherever their meds come from. Anyone who has been in pain or who lives with/looks after someone with chronic pain knows this oh so well.
If restrictions on docs, and from Health Plans and indeed doc concerns about potentially being witch hunted as drug pushers do not allow for creative and modulated prescribing, then patients will find their own ways to try to find some semblance of a normal life.

]]> By: Alex Coolman http://www.pharmalot.com/2008/06/congress-wants-to-restrict-some-internet-sales/#comment-363379 Alex Coolman Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:48:04 +0000 http://www.pharmalot.com/?p=14293#comment-363379 It's worth mentioning that a version of this bill has been unsuccessfully introduced several times in the last couple years. Google "Ryan Haight Act" to see the background. It’s worth mentioning that a version of this bill has been unsuccessfully introduced several times in the last couple years. Google “Ryan Haight Act” to see the background.

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