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Man caught with ‘bucketloads’ of drugs
He was supposed to be in Townsville to go to rehab – but a Goondiwindi man instead robbed a pharmacy, police allege Luke Phillip Jennings appeared in Townsville Magistrates Court …
Article claims ‘wave’ of pharmacist crimes
Crimes committed by pharmacists may be increasing, claims an article published in Fairfax media An article in the Sydney Morning Herald quotes director of NSW Health’s Pharmaceutical Regulatory Unit, Bruce …
World news wrapup: 24 May 2018
Pharmacist struck off after “crude” scheme in Ireland; hospital pharmacists strike in Malta; no national MAS for England Cork, Ireland: A pharmacist has had her registration cancelled by Ireland’s High …
Tributes for pharmacist murdered in the UK
A British pharmacist has faced court charged with the murder of his wife, also a pharmacist Jessica Patel was found with serious injuries in her home in Linthorpe and was …
Failure to report conviction lands pharmacist in hot water
A pharmacy manager has been forbidden to apply for re-registration for 18 months, and temporarily prohibited from working in any environment where he could access S8 or addictive drugs Sydney …
World news wrapup: 17 May 2018
Pharmacist shot and killed in Jordan; prison tech struck off after inappropriate relationship with inmate; US pharmacist foils gun robbery Zarqa, Jordan: A pharmacist is dead and another injured after …
World news wrapup: 10 May 2018
Pharmacy crime rampant in Ireland; counterfeit drugs epidemic in Trinidad and Tobago; Walmart’s new measures to combat opioid crisis Dublin, Ireland: President of the Irish Pharmacy Union Daragh Connolly has …
Infant formula allegedly stolen from pharmacy
Theft of baby formula in Geelong is “absolutely rife,” a court has heard Sourcing baby formula from pharmacies and selling it on to the Chinese market is increasingly a way …
World news wrapup: 2 May 2018
“Purple drank” robber foiled; pharmacy in North Korea; alleged price-fixing in New Zealand Wauna, Washington State: It was stacks on for a would-be thief in Washington State over the weekend, …
Pharmacists acting like ‘street drug dealers’
A London pharmacist allegedly sold “hundreds” of Class C controlled prescription medicines to an undercover reporter, the Daily Mail claims Pharmacists are acting like “street drug dealers,” and “flooding the …
Chemist had ‘pharmacy in his car’
A NSW pharmacist has been fined $800 and given an 18-month good behaviour bond for supplying steroids without prescription In June 2016, police executed three search warrants and charged two …
Jail for ‘disturbing’ petrol attack on pharmacist
A man has been sentenced to seven years’ jail after he threw petrol on a pharmacist and threatened to burn him Fairfax media reports that Kepa Kemp, a former disability …