From the Desk of the CEO

As Thomas Franko, PharmD, BCACP, associate professor of pharmacy practice at Wilkes University in Pennsylvania, put it: “The more information we know about appropriate pain management, the better.”

Loren Bonner

In this year-end wrap-up to 2020—a year we will never forget—we take a look at how the COVID-19 global health crisis unfolded and the ways in which pharmacists became frontline players.

APhA staff

Despite APhA’s concerns that compliance with certain Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA) requirements undermines pandemic response efforts, FDA has con rmed that “dispensers,” including pharmacies, must meet a requirement that went into effect on November 27, 2020.

Rachel Balick

An inadvertent error that violates practice standards is not a crime. This is a good thing.

David B. Brushwood, BSPharm, JD

When a patient recently visited a hospital clinic, a practitioner was reconciling external medication information available in the patient’s electronic health record (EHR) via medication history data from Surescripts.

Institute for Safe Medication Practices, Horsham, PA