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Title: How patient's drugs ended up with illegal users: “No one was doing their job”
Post by: Chip on October 25, 2016, 02:44:56 AM

source: http://www.denverpost.com/2016/10/23/drugs-intended-for-patients-illegal-users/

How drugs intended for patients ended up in the hands of illegal users: “No one was doing their job”

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Oxycodone pain pills prescribed for a patient with chronic pain lie on display on March 23, 2016 in Norwich, CT.

For 10 years, the government waged a behind-the-scenes war against pharmaceutical companies that hardly anyone knows: wholesale distributors of prescription narcotics that ship drugs from manufacturers to consumers.

The Drug Enforcement Administration targeted these middlemen for a simple reason. If the agency could force the companies to police their own drug shipments, it could keep millions of pills out of the hands of abusers and dealers. That would be much more effective than fighting “diversion” of legal painkillers at each drugstore and pain clinic.

Many companies held back drugs and alerted the DEA to signs of illegal activity, as required by law. But others did not.

Collectively, 13 companies identified by The Washington Post knew or should have known that hundreds of millions of pills were ending up on the black market, according to court records, DEA documents and legal settlements in administrative cases, many of which are being reported here for the first time. Even when they were alerted to suspicious pain clinics or pharmacies by the DEA and their own employees, some distributors ignored the warnings and continued to send drugs.

“Through the whole supply chain, I would venture to say no one was doing their job,” said Joseph T. Rannazzisi, former head of the DEA’s Office of Diversion Control, who led the effort against distributors from 2005 until shortly before his retirement in 2015. “And because no one was doing their job, it just perpetuated the problem. Corporate America let their profits get in the way of public health.”

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Title: Re: How patient's drugs ended up with illegal users: “No one was doing their job”
Post by: Z on October 25, 2016, 03:33:02 AM

How does it go? Cash rules everything around me.

Title: Re: How patient's drugs ended up with illegal users: “No one was doing their job”
Post by: dizzle on October 25, 2016, 06:56:29 AM

My problem is what are the "signs of illegal diversion" from what I've heard it's something like "get prescription for more than 2-3 days of oxycodone 5mg (percocets)"

Then they come down hard on those horrible addicts. Terrible people those addicts are.


Fucking jerkoff DEA. Drove an entire generation right into the waiting arms of the Mexican cartels