Rite Aid fined for pseudoephedrine tracking violations

Rite Aid has been fined $5 million dollars for violating government regulations that require pharmacies to track the sale of controlled substances that include pseudoephedrine.  Fifty-three Rite Aid pharmacies in California, Kentucky, New Jersey, New York, Maryland, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Virginia were not tracking the sale of products containing pseudoephedrine and ephedrine according to state and federal regulations. Rite Aid has now agreed to adhere to electronic tracking as well as limiting the sale of pseudoephedrine and ephedrine based products that are used to make methamphetamine by meth lab cooks.

Rite Aid further failed to comply with the Controlled Substances Act by not keeping accurate records of prescription drugs that included oxycodone and hydrocodone. The company has responded by providing all pharmacy staff with training about what they need to do to comply with government regulations about Read more

Lack of meth lab home bailout plan costs landlords

Landlords who rent homes to meth lab cooks aren’t getting a bailout plan to help them pay for the decontamination of their property.  This video shows what happens to innocent home owners and landlords who can’t afford the cost of cleaning up a meth lab home.

Colorado Health Department tells home owner to use bulldozer on his meth lab home

Tim Young’s realtor told him that the home he was thinking about buying from them had once been a meth lab. But, they also told him that it had been cleaned and it was perfectly safe to live in. It wasn’t.

Tim has asked me to share his meth lab home experience with you through his words and pictures.  His hope is that by sharing his story, others might be able to avoid the tremendous losses that he and his mother have had to endure.

Here is Tim Young’s experience with meth lab homes, in his own words. Read more