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That's a doctor issue, not a pharmacy issue. Although they're probably going to need some warehouses with higher clearance levels / restricted access to do this.

I'm all for Amazon filling prescriptions, healthcare is hugely inefficient and any bargaining power Amazon can wrestle away from pharmaceutical companies probably won't negatively impact the consumer.

> I'm all for Amazon filling prescriptions, healthcare is hugely inefficient and any bargaining power Amazon can wrestle away from pharmaceutical companies probably won't negatively impact the consumer.

I doubt RX prices will decrease if Amazon enters the market. Wal-Mart, Costco, and Express Scripts buy, warehouse, and dispense millions of drugs to patient members and drugs prices have barely moved.

State laws for initial and subsequent RX for opioids and other schedule 2 drugs are very strict -

https://www.njafp.org/content/new-prescribing-law-treatment-...

I doubt Amazon will want to deal with the laws surrounding their dispensing. According to that NJ law you have to be a documented cancer patient or worse to get any leeway around how drugs are dispensed or prescribed to you.

I don't think they'd be selling controlled substances but who knows...