What Happened to Pharmacit's Group Participation

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David St. - 27 Jul 2003 00:24 GMT

I have followed this group for quite a while and wonder what happened?
Use to be able to see Pharmacist issues and threads now all I see is
questions regarding recreational use of serious drugs ie: Quetiapine
and Lithium (I am in a Psychiatric setting) and lay people looking for
information that should be available from their local Pharmacists if
they have one. I have to assume they use disount, foreign source,
internet mail order for their drugs, don't support a pharmacist and
therefore don't deserve any consideration in the form of professional
informationl. At one time I did a stint in Retail Pharmacy, when these
people came in I asked for a moment to pull up their profiles, usually
they didn't purchase goods at my pharmacy and I then refused to answer
questions without the profile information. You get what you pay for.

Dave S

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rxempress - 27 Jul 2003 03:43 GMT

We're still here. There is a lot of cross posting going on from support
groups and recreational user groups. Just ignore them or plonk them.
Okay... here's a question for everyone with a pharmacy license. A local
doctor was recently killed in a car accident. He had a solo neurology
practice. He wrote a lot of controlled drugs. A patient came in with a
prescription for dextroamphetamine written abut a week before he died. Is
the rx still valid?

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Darryl - 27 Jul 2003 05:20 GMT

Can't help you with the answer to this question; however, I will pose
one of my own. What are amphetamines still prescribed for? I know
that at some point they served, and perhaps still do, a purpose in the
treatment of ADHD. What are the major complaints?

Ok, here's another: how many of you pharmacists out there are
hospital-based. How many of you round with the staff? What role do
you play? (i.e., other than the obvious one :) How/do you interact
with the patient? Just a curious medicinal chemist,

Darryl

>We're still here. There is a lot of cross posting going on from support
>groups and recreational user groups. Just ignore them or plonk them.
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>prescription for dextroamphetamine written abut a week before he died. Is
>the rx still valid?

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Bob G. - 27 Jul 2003 14:52 GMT

>We're still here. There is a lot of cross posting going on from support
>groups and recreational user groups. Just ignore them or plonk them.
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A few years ago the Maryland Board of Pharmacy addressed this specific
question because of a similar situation... IT was an "opinion" only on
their part.!

Yes the RX was legal... and valid ! no difference then the
Physician being on vacation in another part of the world... However
since the Physician was now NOT practicing medicine any prescriptions
he had written could not be filled with the addition of additional
refills as indicated and any prescriptions that were filled prior to his
death could only be refilled ONCE (if legal) even if they had 3 4 or 5
refills remaining...

Bob Griffiths

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