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Prescribing Red Flags and Suspicious Controlled Substance Orders: Current Cautionary Tales

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

Houck — Separate decisions by federal district courts in Texas and Puerto Rico in the past two months provide cautionary tales for every pharmacy and wholesale distributor dispensing or distributing controlled substances. On October 10th, based on ability to pay, the U.S. 6, 2023 ( DOJ Press Release ). Zarzamora Press Release.

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STAT+: California wants to revoke a CVS mail-order license for illegally filling opioid and ADHD prescriptions

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California authorities are seeking to revoke a license held by a CVS Health mail-order pharmacy unit for violating several state laws that govern shipments of various controlled substances — including prescription painkillers and ADHD medicines — directly to patients.

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Prescribing Red Flags: Pharmacists Be Wary of What the Doctor Orders

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

86, 72703 (December 22, 2021), DEA emphasized in the Gulf Med decision that prescribing [r]ed flags are circumstances surrounding a prescription that cause a pharmacist to take pause, including signs of diversion or the potential for patient harm. Attorneys Office, Northern District of Illinois, April 21, 2025.

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Federal Marijuana Rescheduling: States Get Ready

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

Comments ranged from single sentence declarations to lengthy, cogent treatises, expounding on whether to reschedule marijuana from schedule I to schedule III or another schedule under the federal Controlled Substances Act (“CSA”), to leave marijuana in schedule I, or to deschedule altogether. 21 U.S.C. § 812(c)(c)(10). 21 U.S.C. §

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Pharmacists in Florida (and Elsewhere): Waive Prescribing Red Flags at Your Peril

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

District Court for the District of Texas on Zarzamora Healthcare LLC for repeatedly dispensing opioids and other controlled substances “by filling prescriptions while ignoring red flags.” The Government alleged that Coconut Grove violated numerous federal and state controlled substance laws. 72,694, 72,703 (Dec.

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Two “Unresolvable” Prescribing/Dispensing Red Flags Unfurled

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

We noted that the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) had explained in its 2021 Gulf Med Pharmacy decision that prescribing red flags do not prohibit pharmacies from filling a prescription but are potential signs of diversion or risks to patient harm that pharmacists must resolve before filling. 72,694, 72,703 (Dec.

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Psychedelic research: evaluating the fast-evolving regulatory roadmap

European Pharmaceutical Review

Most psychedelic drugs are Schedule I controlled substances, which means that very strict legal and regulatory controls accompany their use” Some psychedelics originate in nature and have been used by Indigenous cultures for thousands of years; others are manipulated or manufactured.