The U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek H. Murthy sent a letter to 2.3 million American health professionals this week, asking them to lead a national movement to turn the tide on the nation’s prescription opioid epidemic. The letter contains a pocket card outlining the CDC’s opioid prescribing guidelines. This is the first time that a U.S. Surgeon [...]
PPSI would like to testify in Santa Rosa on September 22, from 2-3 PM PPSI would like to testify on determining standards for packaging, labeling, dosing, potency of medical cannabis, produced as medicine, food, botanical and edibles, labeling, dosing, package contents, public health safety warnings, safety standards, cautions and public; (to mental and physical health [...]
ACA Foundation Awards Pharmacy Student Scholarships for Fall 2016 The American College of Apothecaries Research and Education Foundation recently announced the recipients of the Fall 2016 Pharmacy Student Scholarships. The Presidential Scholarship for Academic and Leadership Excellence has been awarded to Christopher Squires, a student at Auburn University Harrison School of Pharmacy. Taylor Schmick, [...]
Sharon Sherrer, PharmD, Recognized for Outstanding Service to Pharmacy Education The American College of Apothecaries presented the 2015-16 Albert E. Rosica, Jr. Memorial Award to Sharon Sherrer of Marietta, Georgia at the College’s 2016 Fall Pharmacy Conference at the Marriott St. Louis Grand in St. Louis, Missouri. The award, established in memory of Albert E. Rosica, [...]
Download the Guideline Drug overdoses are occurring at an alarming rate in the United States. Most overdoses have been linked to opioid analgesics, which may have been obtained from community pharmacies. One potential solution is to offer take-home naloxone. CPNP is pleased to provide this Naloxone Access Guideline for Pharmacists .Link to another valuable substance abuse [...]
Regarding marijuana/MMJ and mental illness, drug interactions and also, warnings that ASAM, AMA, CMA and CPhA, along with the new California Medical Marijuana Safety Act, (MMSA) ASAM says in their latest research paper, that no one under 25 should be using MJ/MMJ, due to the fact that the brain is still developing until 25 years of [...]
OPIOIDUSEDISORDERS-InterventionsforCommunityPharmacists Opioid Use Disorders: Interventions for Community Pharmacists Download the Guideline CPNP is pleased to provide this guideline document intended to educate community pharmacists on interventions they can employ to provide safe and appropriate access to opioids while also protecting the public from the hazards of misuse and abuse. This publication is supported by the [...]
please be advised we have had to change our program, slightly with an updated change of venue. Offices of United Patients Group 818 Fifth Avenue, Suite 208 San Rafael, CA 94901 Free parking at Chamber of Commerce next door 3 subjects | 3 sessions | 3 opportunities 8:00-8:30AM: Registration for early risers ! 8:30-10:30AM Session I: Contraception 2016 [...]
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