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Phriday’s Phreaky Pharmacy Philes

Posted on | July 23, 2010 | No Comments

1. A retired New Zealand pharmacist pleaded guilty to a charge of manufacturing methamphetamine at the High Court in Auckland. Samuel Ross Pulman, whom supplied precursor drugs to a methamphetamine drug ring, has told the court that he thought he was “helping police and the community“.

2. Health! That’s the answer to so many of our problems. Without health, a woman cannot make her home the happy haven she dreams of, at least according to Lydia Pinkham. Tales From The Morgue: If you have your health, you have everything.

3. Trivia question of the week: Despite the DEA stating that marijuana is still a Schedule I drug and that it will still be treated as such, which State Board of Pharmacy has become the first to reclassify marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule II? Hint: it’s not California. Click here for the answer (pdf).

4. Rebecca experienced the wrath of the birth control pricing gods on a recent Walgreens visit, discovering that the generic version of her pill, Yaz, was suddenly more expensive than the name-brand version. She braved her insurer’s customer service hell to track down some answers but only got more confusion. Adventures In Crazy Birth Control Pricing, via The Consumerist.

5. Here’s one for the road: According to Andrew Phelps and a Twitter, circa 1913 tweet, a cure for pulmonary tuberculosis is only a drink away – in a bottle of Dr. Wistarm’s Balsam of Wild Cherry, now on sale at your local druggist.

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