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Q&A: Balancing Patient Care, Compliance Amid Controlled Substance Challenges | AAP 2025

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Mark Garofoli, PharmD, MBA, BCGP, CPE, CTTS, discusses effective strategies for balancing excellent patient care with strict regulations surrounding controlled substances.

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Pharmacists Play Critical Role in Monitoring Controlled Substances | APhA 2025

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Emily Leppien, PharmD, BCPS, BCPP, clinical associate professor of pharmacy practice at Binghamton University, discusses identifying potential red flags for substance use disorder.

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Prescribing Red Flags: Pharmacists Be Wary of What the Doctor Orders

The FDA Law Blog

Attorneys Office, Northern District of Illinois, April 21, 2025. While the presence of a dispensing red flag does not prohibit a pharmacist from filling a controlled substance, it means that there is a potential concern with the prescription, which the pharmacist must address andmake a record of its resolution, assuming it is resolvable.

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The Impact of DEA Telehealth Extensions on Patient Access

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In this part of his Pharmaceutical Executive video interview, Peter Ax, CEO of UpScriptHealth, discusses the recent DEA extensions of telehealth for controlled substances and new treatment modalities or patient populations he anticipates will become more accessible through telehealth in 2025.

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Two “Unresolvable” Prescribing/Dispensing Red Flags Unfurled

The FDA Law Blog

Attorneys Office, Northern District of Illinois, April 21, 2025, quoted here. Press Release, Walgreens Agrees To Pay Up to $350M for Illegally Filling Unlawful Opioid Prescriptions and Submitting False Claims, U.S.

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Prehearing Ruling Establishes Marijuana Rescheduling Hearing Ground Rules

The FDA Law Blog

The NPRM seeks to reschedule marijuana from schedule I of the federal Controlled Substances Act (CSA) to schedule III. Last weeks prehearing conference set the parameters for the hearing on the merits, scheduled to begin January 21, 2025. Prehearing Ruling (Dec. 4, 2024), at 1.

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Competition is on the horizon for costly narcolepsy treatments

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Harmony Biosciences introduced Wakix to the market in 2019 as the first non-controlled substance for the treatment of narcolepsy. For Avadel’s Lumryz, the one-dose extended-release oral suspension that allows narcolepsy patients to sleep through the night, the worst-case scenario is it won’t be on the market until 2025.

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