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    Unmarked cars and secret orders: How a pharmacy prepared drugs for Texas’ executions

    By Chiara Eisner NPR,

    11 days ago
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    Rite-Away Pharmacy and Medical Supply in San Antonio. Brenda Bazan/NPR

    The state of Texas, blocked from purchasing lethal injection drugs by major pharmaceutical companies that refuse to participate in executions, bought them instead from an in-state compounding pharmacy with a history of more than a dozen safety and cleanliness violations, NPR has learned.

    Rite-Away Pharmacy and Medical Supply in suburban San Antonio produced injectable pentobarbital from 2019 through at least late 2023 for Texas to use in executions, records from the state Department of Criminal Justice and the federal Drug Enforcement Administration revealed.

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    In 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice brought this second Rite-Away branch in South San Antonio to court for allegedly breaking federal law by dispensing powerful opioids to people without valid prescriptions, falsifying hundreds of prescriptions for controlled substances and ignoring serious red flags that indicated people intended to abuse their medications. Brenda Bazan/NPR
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