DENVER (AP) — Having executed just one prisoner in 45 years, the Colorado Department of Corrections is now searching for a source for the drugs needed to carry out the sentence for the state's longest serving death-row inmate. Department Director Tom Clements sent a letter to 97 compounding pharmacies Tuesday asking if they could acquire sodium thiopental or... more »
The ironic thing here is that Colorado is allowing compounding pharmacies to "manufacture" non-patient-specific drugs with the intent purpose of killing the patient.
ReplyDeleteIf you want your patient to live, however, you probably wouldn't want to get compounded drugs that were not patient-specific.
Kenneth Woliner, MD
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