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State Boards of Pharmacy Missing in Action During Opioid Crisis

Policy Prescription

state boards of pharmacy to properly regulate pharmacies that irresponsibly and too often illegally profited from opioid drug sales to patients. So, where was the West Virginia Board of Pharmacy? This post should serve as the beginning of a serious inquiry into the failure of U.S. It’s really straightforward.

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Another RICOdiculous Decision

Drug & Device Law

341 (2001). the relationship between [plaintiff] and its pharmacy benefit manager. . . Apparently, massive loss of evidence was merely a “usual and customary service” of pharmacy benefit mangers nationwide. What’s worse, the fraud on the FDA claim, if brought under state law, would be preempted by Buckman Co. 555, 565 (E.D.

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Beating FDCA-Based Negligence Per Se Claims on Non-Preemption Grounds

Drug & Device Law

341 (2001) (a Bone Screw case). Plaintiffs point to no FDCA requirement that such information be included in an order for medicine to be delivered to the doctor who ordered it. Moreover, “it would be nonsensical to require directions for patient use for a drug that is injected into the patient by a doctor in a clinical setting.”