Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (WBA)

[big-yank]

What a total shame that an MD would risk his license and the lives of patients by over-prescribing narcotics. It's easy to blame the users like Michael Jackson for the illegal dispensing, but in the endgame just two gatekeepers control the distribution... the prescribing physician and the dispensing pharmacist.

Thank God that there are responsible PharmD's at many Walgreens and elsewhere that look for such abuses.

The situation in Florida with the DEA initiative indicates a less than stellar corporate response to an obvious issue with controlled substances fueling abuse of prescription drugs in that state. It will be interesting to see what Walgreens (and CVS who was similarly cited) does to respond to assertions that their actions... or lack of intervention... contributed to the problem.

I think robb was correct to keep this topic in the forefront. This is much larger an issue than I supposed at first blush.

Yank