Must see video on the importance of handling our medications with care.
Read MoreWhen life-saving medications are shipped by mail, patients lives are at risk. Shipping life-saving medications by mail is unlike any other shipment.
When it comes to mail-order pharmacy, patients with chronic conditions often have to risk their lives to get medications and the care they need. Today, many patients are only offered coverage if they use mail-order pharmacy. Any delay in medication can be a patients life such as in the case of transplant patients like my son or for patients with many other chronic conditions.
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In Virginia, the corporations won the fight to not have to prioritize the lives of the many patients and to continue the risking of lives due to forced mail-order pharmacy. I cannot comprehend or understand how the senators and the regulators across our nation cannot understand the great risk posed to the most vulnerable patients. Medications are lost, stolen, delayed, mishandled, not stored at safe temperatures, and delivered to the wrong address. This is not safe. This is life-threatening. When we receive the medications through the hands of our trusted pharmacist, this risk is eliminated. Why do they not see us as worthy of this option?
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