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 Chemy
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 DEA tags 4th Cardinal facility, [OH]
#7990595 - 02/07/08 06:00 AM (6 months, 26 days ago) |
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DEA tags 4th Cardinal facility
This one allowed to continue operating
The federal government is investigating another Cardinal Health distribution center that it suspects of supplying narcotics to illicit online pharmacies.
It's the fourth Cardinal center suspected of such activity, but unlike the other three, this center's license to operate wasn't suspended.
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration on Jan. 30 ordered an administrative hearing with Cardinal Health regarding its distribution center in Stafford, Texas, the Dublin-based pharmaceutical distributor reported yesterday in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The agency did not immediately suspend operations at the center, Cardinal said in the filing, and no hearing date has been scheduled.
The three centers where activities previously were suspended by the DEA are those in Auburn, Wash.; Lakeland, Fla.; and Swedesboro, N.J.
Since November, the DEA has suspended Cardinal's license to operate those three of its 25 drug-distribution centers, alleging that Cardinal exercised lax control over the distribution of controlled substances such as the painkiller hydrocodone.
Since then, the company has instituted new controls over the distribution process and reassigned an employee to oversee it, Cardinal spokesman Jim Mazzola said.
"We're centralizing that function to provide greater focus and add resources," he said. "It indicates we're taking this matter very seriously."
DEA representatives did not return calls yesterday.
Cardinal will spend more than $30 million this year on new controls over the distribution of controlled substances, CEO R. Kerry Clark said late last month.
The company said in yesterday's SEC filing that it has established a new, centralized anti-diversion program designed to reduce the flow of drugs to what the DEA has termed "rogue pharmacies" that sell drugs online. Mazzola said that included setting up an organization dedicated to security.
Further, Cardinal said it has hired new workers, upgraded its computer tracking of controlled substances, and halted its distribution to certain pharmacies based on their activities.
Cardinal said in the SEC filing it plans to add more employees to its security force and boost training in the area.
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/business/stories/2008/02/07/Cardinal_Texas.ART_ART_02-07-08_C10_PV99JM0.html?
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“There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them". -Ayn Rand
“Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.”
-Montesquieu, 1748
The thesis that I want to advance today is that the drug war and the laws that prohibit the private consumption of certain drugs are unconstitutional. Prohibition laws, themselves, violate every tenet of limited government that is embodied in our Constitution.
http://www.paulhager.org/libertarian/drug_con.html
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