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> > If you walked up to a pharmacy with a script/prescription for Epogen,
> > first of all, the pharmacist would think something was awry.
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> Or s/he might just assume that you've got cancer, and your doctor has
> prescribed Epogen as a way of fighting the anemia caused by your
> chemotherapy.> Andy Coggan
Andy, No one with cancer takes the Epogen home with them
I can tell you from first-hand experience that this is patently not
true.(BTW, related to Simon's (?) previous experience: yesterday my wife
walked away from the local Walgreens with 300,000 U of heparin. She had
to wait to have her 'scrip filled, but they did have the drug in stock.)I never said you can't walk out of a Pharmacy with heparin.
That drug is administered subcutaneously. The same way insulin is
administered. They assume anyone who comes in with a heparin script
has been trained in how to administer it (same with a diabetic who
wants insulin). But a drug given via an IV, that's different. It
requires (at a minimum) licensure to be allowed to administer it.
Perhaps you have been in a situation where you walked away with Epogen,
but I can tell you that unless you were a pharmacist, pharmacy delivery
boy or a doctor, there was likely some illegal action going on. And
that illegal action is probably very rare in the states.
Allow me to repeat myself: Epogen can, and often is, administered
subcutaneously, by, or at least to, patients in their own homes.
Andy Coggan