Public Health Town Hall & Breakfast Presented by Pharmacists Planning Service, Inc. (PPSI) and American College of Apothecaries Foundation (ACA), in conjunction with Drug Topics Magazine Sunday, March 24, 2019 7:00 AM - 9:00 AM Sheraton Seattle - 1400 6th Ave, Seattle, WA Willow AB Room Cost: $20 FREE for 2019 PPSI Supporters (please [...]
California Pharmacists Opioid Safety Training The Last Line of Defense in the Healthcare Team More than 2,000 people in California die every year from overdoses related to opioids. Pharmacists are literally the last line of defense in the healthcare team. Register below for this one-hour CME class for pharmacists on safe dispensing of opioid medications. [...]
The California State Board of Pharmacy announces a milestone in public access to health care with the creation of a new classification of professionals known as advanced practice pharmacists. The board is now accepting applications and ready to begin licensing these highly educated and trained pharmacists who will collaborate with providers to directly treat and [...]
Top-three recognition for 14th straight year shows importance of pursuing a pro-pharmacy, pro-patient policy agenda, NACDS says 12.21.2016 "The takeaway for policymakers is that the pharmacist-patient relationship has tremendous potential to do even more to improve patient health and well-being, along with the overall quality and affordability of healthcare." click here to read the story
Nurses Medical Cannabis Workshop: A Clinical Focus Gang: Thanks to all of you who attended our cannabis pharmacology presentation at Salute Restaurant in Point Richmond last Sunday, September 25. Corinne and John Malanca, owners of United Patients Group, who sponsored Dr. Lee Wolfer and her presentation handed out postcards on an upcoming workshop in Lafayette, [...]
Margaret Shield gave a background talk on pharmaceutical stewardship to a committee of the Oregon Legislature last week to help local agencies and advocates queue up their work on medicine take-back legislation. A recording and her slides are posted on her blog: http://cehstrategies.com/news/why-secure-medicine-disposal-whats-pharmaceutical-stewardship.html In response, PhRMA submitted a statement, “In Opposition to Drug Take-back Mandates”, online here: https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2015I1/Downloads/CommitteeMeetingDocument/92676 [...]
NEW Pharmacy Law specifies the functions a pharmacist is authorized to perform, including furnishing nicotine replacement products and administering immunizations, as specified and receive reimbursements for doing so. Introduced by Assembly Member Eggman February 27, 2015 An act to add Section 14132.968 to the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to health care, and declaring the urgency thereof, to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
