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Align My Refills Three national pharmacy associations get behind encouraging pts to be compliant with their prescribed medications for chronic conditions. • American Pharmacists Association (APhA) • National Alliance of State Pharmacy Associations (NASPA) • National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) http://www.alignmyrefills.com/ From the article: Med sync is especially helpful for people who take multiple, monthly […]
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Alcohol Involvement in Opioid Pain Reliever and Benzodiazepine Drug Abuse–Related Emergency Department Visits and Drug-Related Deaths — United States, 2010 http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6340a1.htm?s_cid=mm6340a1_e From the article: The abuse of prescription drugs has led to a significant increase in emergency department (ED) visits and drug-related deaths over the past decade. Opioid pain relievers (OPRs) and benzodiazepines are the […]
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This showed up in a post on the internet… we, in healthcare, are all about caring for pts.. especially Pharmacists… who apparently determines if a Rx is medically necessary by geography. My wonderful Obamacare insurance plan (Being sarcastic, it is terrible) creates a situation where […]
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Experts: Officials missed signs of prescription drug crackdown’s effect on heroin use http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/experts-officials-missed-signs-of-prescription-drug-crackdowns-effect-on-heroin-use/2014/03/06/2216414a-9fc1-11e3-b8d8-94577ff66b28_story.html From the article: From the beginning, the U.S. government’s decade-long crackdown on prescription drug abuse has run an unsettling risk: that arresting doctors and shuttering “pill mills” would inadvertently fuel a new epidemic of heroin use. Gil Kerlikowske, who took over as […]
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