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Murder. yeah, that massachusetts case, other recent instances of them running into the sharpened of the law, has made for a bad patch for the compounding pharmacy industry. perhaps sensing they were in need of an image upgrade, late last month, the leading trade group announced that just like the drug industry had stopped providing prisons with drugs to kill people, compounding pharmacies should opt out of that process too. that was the new message. stop making drugs for killing prisoners. so the states are really up against it now. they can't buy drugs to kill prisoners, increasingly, they ca...

Make the drugs. they stopped shipping them to prisons saying they were deliberately misusing those chemicals. some turned to compounding pharmacies. they're used to make drugs for patients who might need particular medicine but maybe you have some allergy to one of the ingredients. so maybe they'll make you a batch of the drug without that filling in it. but compounding drugs is a delicate business with life and death consequences. there has been trouble in that industry over the past few years. in 2012 there was a huge problem. a pharmacy in massachusetts sent out contaminated batches of ster...

Plan b either where they get compounding pharmacies to make them the drugs. so states that want to kill their prisons by injecting them with pharmaceuticals they're getting to be out of options here. almost. but look at this. this is amazing. this is an inventory of the drugs on hand at the mississippi execution chamber. you can see right there. pentobarbital, sodium powder. pen toebarbital is one of the drugs they use to kill prisoners for lethal injection. but not as a powder. it has to be liquid, right? mississippi for some reason has it on hand in powder form. but if you wanted to inject i...

Chemicals. some turned to compounding pharmacies. they're used to make drugs for patients who might need particular medicine but maybe you have some allergy to one of the ingredients. so maybe they'll make you a batch of the drug without that filling in it. but compounding drugs is a delicate business with life and death consequences. there has been trouble in that industry over the past few years. in 2012, there was a huge problem. a pharmacy in massachusetts sent out contaminated batches of steroids that were meant for spinal injections. it gave hundreds of people spinal meningitis. dozens o...

Basically now gone. there are not legal ways for states to buy any of the most continuely used injection drugs any more. one of the only options that states have left is to do what texas just did. they were down to their last lethal dose of drugs but then they got three more doses. now they can kill four more people. where they got the new three doses was a licensed pharmacy that has the ability to compound. that means they're having the drugs made to order for them by hand. compounding pharmacies make they were down to their last lethal dose of drugs but then they got three more doses. now th...