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posted by martyb on Monday September 25 2017, @12:59PM   Printer-friendly
from the addiction-sucks dept.

CVS is finally trying to do something about the opioid epidemic:

Drug-store chain CVS Health announced Thursday that it will limit opioid prescriptions in an effort to combat the epidemic that accounted for 64,000 overdose deaths last year alone.

Amid pressure on pharmacists, doctors, insurers and drug companies to take action, CVS also said it would boost funding for addiction programs, counseling and safe disposal of opioids.

[...] The company's prescription drug management division, CVS Caremark, which provides medications to nearly 90 million people, said it would use its sweeping influence to limit initial opioid prescriptions to seven-day supplies for new patients facing acute ailments.

It will instruct pharmacists to contact doctors when they encounter prescriptions that appear to offer more medication than would be deemed necessary for a patient's recovery. The doctor would be asked to revise it. Pharmacists already reach out to physicians for other reasons, such as when they prescribe medications that aren't covered by a patient's insurance plan.

The plan also involves capping daily dosages and initially requiring patients to get versions of the medications that dispense pain relief for a short period instead of a longer duration.

[...] "The whole effort here is to try to reduce the number of people who are going to end up with some sort of opioid addiction problem," CVS Chief Medical Officer Troyen Brennan said in an interview.

It appears this initiative is limited to initial filling of prescriptions — there is no mention of changes in the handling of refills.


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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 25 2017, @01:35PM (8 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 25 2017, @01:35PM (#572653)

    Who's still using CVS? At least Subversion is available. Now... git!

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  • (Score: 2) by Pino P on Monday September 25 2017, @03:20PM (2 children)

    by Pino P (4721) on Monday September 25 2017, @03:20PM (#572680) Journal

    What revision control system does Walgreens use for its own software?

    • (Score: 3, Funny) by c0lo on Monday September 25 2017, @03:29PM (1 child)

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday September 25 2017, @03:29PM (#572684) Journal

      I don't know. Visual SourceSafe?

      (ducks)

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 25 2017, @04:16PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 25 2017, @04:16PM (#572704)

        Wouldn't doubt it based on my experience with Walgreens.

  • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Monday September 25 2017, @04:50PM (3 children)

    by Grishnakh (2831) on Monday September 25 2017, @04:50PM (#572711)

    I miss CVS actually. I remember there was this really handy program in Tk, I forget the name now, but when you ran it on a source file, it would highlight all the lines according to which revision (check-in) each line was last modified in. I've never seen anything like it for other revision control systems, though admittedly I haven't looked that hard. Are there any tools for git which do this?

    The other thing I miss about CVS was that I could edit the repository manually, since it was all text-based.

    • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 25 2017, @09:24PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 25 2017, @09:24PM (#572799)

      That feature is called “blame”. You can get a commandline version by running “git blame”, but any git GUI should have it as well. But if you didn't know it was called blame, it would be difficult to find.

    • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday September 26 2017, @12:10PM

      by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Tuesday September 26 2017, @12:10PM (#573054) Homepage
      As already mentioned, git blame's nearest to what you want.
      I didn't like its verbosity (including lines I had no interest in), and found a few self-written scripts using it to suit my workflow better. One was a show/blame combo which would give me the blame context of a commit, which was very useful for identifying the older patches newer tweaks should be squashed into when cleaning up a set of changes for release (and wanting to hide my intermediate mistakes). (It worked on uncommitted changes too, so would tell me which changes I should add -p as a fixup patch for imminent squashing.)
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    • (Score: 1) by ekimnosnews on Wednesday September 27 2017, @04:27PM

      by ekimnosnews (1855) <{ekimnosnews} {at} {gmail.com}> on Wednesday September 27 2017, @04:27PM (#573864)

      Team Foundation Server has Annotate that sounds like what you're describing.

  • (Score: 2) by KiloByte on Monday September 25 2017, @06:44PM

    by KiloByte (375) on Monday September 25 2017, @06:44PM (#572745)

    Who's still using CVS?

    Just read the article -- to still use CVS, hard drugs must be involved.

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