From the Desk of the CEO

With National Poison Prevention Week coming up March 15–21, 2020, pharmacists have a chance to properly display and hand out those familiar 800-222-1222 poison control help line stickers. But there are more ways—besides the sticker—for pharmacists to engage with poison control.

Loren Bonner

Over the past 5 years, states have adopted pharmacy-based naloxone laws at rapid-fire pace, allowing pharmacists to dispense the opioid overdose antidote without a prescription.

Loren Bonner

Suicide rates in the United States are increasing among males and females, yet community pharmacists who regularly see and provide medications to those suffering with mental health conditions remain an untapped resource for risk reduction efforts, according to a commentary published in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine in November 2019.

Charnicia Huggins, PharmD

CBD & cannabis: The basics

Rachel Balick, Loren Bonner, and Leah Sera, PharmD, MA, BCPS

It’s been a stop-and-go journey toward the elimination of the retroactive direct and indirect remuneration (DIR) fees that are causing intense turmoil in the pharmacy community, particularly in the independent pharmacy space.

Rachel Balick