Dear Friends in Pain,

Reprimand, fine? We are talking over 7,000 missing pills.

Where is the DEA in this joke?

What price does the "tech" pay for murder? Again who is
suffering for overjudicious drug abuse, and sale of drugs.

Not the criminals would you not say this is a criminal?
The tech should be in jail no? The owner of the pharmacy too
arrested?

This is drug dealing at it's finest. And yet who suffers? The
physicians serving jail time (WHY I ASK WHY), and the clients
in pain who are accused of being addicts and dealers?

Take a whiff this one stinks.

Thanks Cynn to OCPM for this link...

Peace,

Karen G.


Pharmacy disciplined in drug overdose
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfmnewsid=14627998&BRD=1719&PAG=461&dept_id=252
71&rfi=6

WOOD RIVER -- The state of Illinois has fined a local pharmacy
$25,000, placed the owner on probation and reprimanded seven
employees after an unlicensed worker admitted to stealing painkillers
and anti-depressants for an ex-boyfriend who then overdosed on the
drugs last year.

An investigation by the Illinois Department of Financial and
Professional Regulation unsealed on Wednesday found that the owner
and employees of the Wood River Medicine Shoppe allowed a clerk who
did not possess a pharmacy technician's license to handle, count and
fill prescriptions for dangerous and addictive drugs.

The state documents also claim that pharmacy owner Michael J. Cleary,
of the 1200 block of Bridge Park Drive in Alton, did not employ
adequate safeguards to prevent employee theft of drugs.

For example, a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration investigator
found the pharmacy's internal inventory system lacking, finding 7,302
instances of missing capsules of addictive painkillers and anti-
depressants.

The investigator termed the number of unaccounted-for
pills "substantial discrepancies."

The February 2004 death of Justin Stalcup, 21, a Roxana High School
graduate who had been living in Rosewood Heights, prompted the
investigation.

Authorities say he overdosed on the morphine-like painkiller
Oxycontin, which was illegally supplied to him by his ex-girlfriend
and former Medicine Shoppe clerk Jodi Sandbach.

Sandbach, 20, of the 500 block of Soteir Place in Wood River, pleaded
guilty in August to felony theft and unlawful delivery of a
controlled substance.

Cleary admitted to investigators, according to the documents, that
Sandbach worked for him for more than two years, performing pharmacy
technician duties such as handling and counting various types of
controlled substances without a license.

"Cleary stated that he did not apply for pharmacy technician licenses
for his employees because 'the state owes him money, and they are
always a month behind in payment,'" an investigator said.

Seven other licensed pharmacists or technicians also admitted knowing
that Sandbach handled drugs and even sometimes filled prescriptions.

They all have since been reprimanded in their permanent records,
which could make finding a new job within the industry more
difficult.

One employee even told investigators that she knew Sandbach pilfered
pills from the shelves.

Angela M. Hogle, of the 5700 block of Sir Kay Court in Godfrey, told
the authorities that Sandbach confessed to her directly.

"(Sandbach) would go over to the control cabinet and shake them and
put a few in her hand, then put them in her purse," Hogle said in a
written statement.

Sandbach's former telephone number in Wood River since has been
disconnected, and a family member declined to comment Wednesday.

While Cleary also declined to comment, he claimed in documents filed
along with the allegations that he since has put into place new
procedures restricting access to the drugs in his pharmacy,
particularly in regard to Oxycontin.

"(Cleary and the Medicine Shoppe) truly regret failing to have the
aforementioned policy and procedures in place prior to the incident,"
he said in the documents.

Stalcup's family, who could not be reached for comment, has filed a
civil wrongful death lawsuit in Madison County Circuit Court against
Cleary and the Medicine Shoppe.







Karen Hallenbeck-Sikorsky-George BS,RN,UM,QC

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