Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Since 2010 APHA has been hoping that RPHs would not sell tobacco. They partly got their wish with CVS. It stopped selling in September, when it planned on ceasing sales 9 days from today.

In other news, the DEA is giving hospitals and clinics the ability to start collecting unwanted medications any day of the year. No longer are they limited to DEA take back days ever since 9/8/14 when they issued what is sometimes called a "final rule" on the subject of how to throw away  controlled RXs. For most pharmacists, beware of accepting illegal medicine. Follow the rule: to take back from patients only marinol, not marijuana.

Source: Pharmacy Today