Protecting Your Practice – Tackling Prescription Drug Abuse
Protecting Your Practice – Tackling Prescription Drug Abuse – To receive credit, visit: www.freece.com Program Overview Prescription drug abuse is one of the most serious and critical public health concerns in the country. Numerous initiatives have been implemented by federal and state legislators in an attempt to curtail this crisis. Many of these have focused on educating physicians about sound narcotic prescribing practices; however, few have explored the potential benefit of using the pharmacist to help combat this growing problem. Since pharmacists are frontline health care providers and the provider that actually fills the prescription, it is imperative that they receive the education and training to proactively work with patients and prescribers to identify, manage, and prevent prescription drug abuse. This knowledge based program will focus on the enormous consequences that prescription drug abuse has had in the United States in recent years, and the pivotal role that pharmacists can play in addressing this growing problem. Nurse Educational Objectives – Outline the deleterious effects of prescription opioid abuse on idividuals and society – Describe the signs and symptoms of prescription opioid abuse withdrawal – Identify the most common methods that patients uste to obtain prescription opoids for purposes of abuse Pharmacist Educational Objectives – Outline the deleterious effects of prescription opioid abuse on idividuals and society – Describe the signs and symptoms of prescription opioid abuse withdrawal – Identify the …
EDITORIAL: Prescription drug disposal programs help keep public safe
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Recognizing a growing problem with prescription drug abuse, New Jersey has taken a federal initiative and expanded upon it to make it easier for residents of the Garden State to dispose of expired and unused prescription meds. It's called Project …
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Prescription Drug Abuse 'Epidemic' Explored at Summit
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He asked students to take away two things from the drug summit: That if they think they have a problem, to get help, and that if they or any of their friends find themselves in physical distress because of prescription drugs, to call 911. All the …
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Rockland psychiatrist facing charges of selling prescription drugs
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A Rockland psychiatrist formerly affiliated with Nyack Hospital's drug treatment center has been charged with multiple felony counts of selling prescriptions worth millions of dollars to drug dealers, authorities said Monday. A 55-count indictment …
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