Community Practice

Pharmacists are the most accessible healthcare resource. Once trained in naloxone use, we can train our patients in all aspects of opioid use. This will make a difference.

"Naloxone should be the fire extinguisher in the home of everyone who is at risk."

A new campaign is warning seniors about the risk of buying drugs from illegal online pharmacies.

When a snap decision is called for, “What is our corporate loss-prevention policy?” can compete in an employee’s brain with “What is the best thing for the patient?”

With the industry changing from a pill-centered model to a patient-centered model, med sync becomes more important than ever.

Healthcare has changed, and the emphasis on transitions of care has grown as inpatient and outpatient services are linking up.

A champion of pain patients and a proponent of limited opioid access talk about the issues in a genial debate.

The rules vary from state to state. Pharmacists need to stay informed.

There are more ways than one to run a specialty pharmacy - and success can be found with any of them.

The more things change, the more more they remain the same.

Will the DEA finally reclassify marijuana to schedule 2?

Patents expire, competition rises, and outsourcing expands.

Really? Still? Why?

Pharmacist Maisha McCoy will never forget those tense days in late April 2015, when rioting and looting were widespread throughout Baltimore.

Bruce Kneeland is on the hunt for unique indie pharmacies across the country.

FIP's 76th annual World Congress of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences takes place in Buenos Aires in August. This year's topic: The global disease burden.

CVS decided to abandon tobacco sales in 2014. Plenty of community pharmacists were way ahead on that one.

APhA has announced its new officers for 2017-2018.

An expert with 35 years' academic and professional experience calls it like he sees it.

According to PBMs, those drug coupons are something else.

More than 300 pharmacists turned out to support H.R. 244, the “MAC Transparency Act," and H.R. 793, the “Ensuring Seniors Access to Local Pharmacies Act of 2015.”

The movement to get naloxone into the hands of first responders, drug users, and their family members has found increasing support in state legislatures.

Most pharmacy shelves stock numerous alternative treatments for simple skin problems. Here are a few of the newer ones.

New Rx, indications, generics, and OTC

Physicians have been called "Doc" for so long that the terms are essentially identical. Why not designate pharmacists by a separate and distinct title?

With provider status now a reality in 38 states, HR 592 and S 314 have powerful Congressional support. How long before the payers come on board?

A new mental health platform on the Walgreens website will offer consumers free online screening tools and links to providers of followup care.

An "outpouring of new pharmacy-school graduates." "Fears of a manpower glut." 2016 headlines? Nope. The year was 1976.

In some professions, eternal vigilance comes with the territory.

PBMs have dodged state-mandated requirements for transparency in generics drug pricing, so many states are rewriting their laws.