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Understanding DSCSA: Insights for All Dispensers

Pharmacy Times

As the full act will be enforced in November 2024, all medication dispensers must ensure they’re fully prepared.

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More Diversion Cases and WCF’s Opioid & Fentanyl Abuse Management Summit

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

We learned this week that Palomar Health, one of California’s largest healthcare districts, agreed to pay $250,000 to resolve allegations that numerous vials of fentanyl had been diverted from automated medication dispensing machines over a five-month period and that the hospital did not properly dispose of unused fentanyl.

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Part Two Of Getting My Girlfriend’s Prescription With Hopes That Part Three Never Occurs

The Happy PharmD

Part two is supposed to come out in June 2024. In the article, I discussed the problems that my girlfriend and I encountered in obtaining the medication. Imagine if they called for a refill and you dispensed only two tablets. In some cases, the quantity of medication dispensed is less than the actual quantity prescribed.