Pharmacy coalition to Trump administration: Meet with us about opioid crisis
The National Conference of Pharmaceutical Organizations (NCPO), a coalition of organizations representing more than 300,000 pharmacy practitioners, pharmaceutical scientists, pharmacy regulators, and pharmacy educators, has invited the Trump administration to meet to discuss ways of addressing the nation’s opioid crisis. Noting that each day more than 90 Americans die from overdosing on opioids, the coalition, of which APhA is a part, said in a statement that it supports immediate action on components of the report of the President’s Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis.
“We ask the White House and the Administration to work with the pharmacy community to establish and implement specific programs to address this crisis, and to identify specific goals for these programs,” said Lucinda L. Maine, PhD, RPh, executive vice president and CEO of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy and NCPO president.
In a related statement, APhA executive president and CEO Thomas E. Menighan, BSPharm, MBA, ScD (Hon.), FAPhA, said, “APhA, along with the other NCPO members, is individually and jointly committed to combating this public health crisis as we implement best practices across the country. We believe such collaborative efforts are essential to meeting our country’s needs for high quality health care while working together to reduce the impact of this crisis on American families.”
Menighan highlighted pharmacists’ long-standing contributions in the fight against opioid misuse and abuse. “We work actively with patients and their communities on a daily basis, and APhA’s priority is to make sure that policy makers and our fellow health care providers know what pharmacists can do to make meaningful progress in the fight against opioids.”
According to the statement from the nearly a dozen healthcare organizations representing over 300,000 healthcare providers aligning themselves with those who believe that those who are suffering from the mental health issue of addictive personality are more deserving of appropriate care than the 100+ million chronic pain pts. Basically those with chronic pain are being
LEFT OUT IN THE COLD ?
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again…
Everyone is meeting with the President except the DOCTOR’S. Pain patients have been fighting and advocating for A Decade to Defend Drs but all we hear is crickets,… from Pain Physicians Organizations. Patients in pain need advocates Too.
It’s getting Late in the Game !
What are doctors going to do when their hands are completely tied and patients STOP taking ALL Medicine because they’re pain isn’t being treated so they give up on life? The Dr office won’t be too busy then will it?
Drs won’t have much freedom to practice medicine and if they do, it will be Dictated by the government on what they’re limited to.
The pharmacists Today are not the Doctors “Friends.” They blacklist, Report Drs to the DEA and Refuse to Fill legitimate prescriptions.
They’re the Opiate Police!
The doctors better UNITE soon and have they’re SAY or they Won’t have ONE.
Seems like everyone except patients have a seat at the table. Even unqualified spokesperson said for the president. God help those in need.