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Five for Friday January 12: Celebrating Success in Advancing Medication Use Quality

PQA

Make plans to join us! We also highlight our members' perspectives on patient monitoring tools, Medicare Advantage outcomes, and food insecurity. This webinar will review a draft call to action to advance the quality of MTM services, following the December 11-January 12 public comment period.

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Five for Friday August 25: Celebrating Success in Advancing Medication Use Quality

PQA

Join Us for Leadership summit and PQA Convenes After hearing feedback from many of our members, we have expanded the participation in the 2023 PQA Leadership Summit to include two individuals from each PQA member organization. Join us for the next Quality Forum Webinar on October 12,1:00-2:00 pm ET. Register today! Register today!

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The emergence of tranq amidst the fentanyl crisis

Pharmaceutical Technology

According to a June 2022 study, xylazine has been detected in the illicit drug supply in 36 US States, and the DEA has reported that approximately 30% of the fentanyl seized by the Agency contained xylazine. As per Stat News , the Canadian company BTNX plans to sell xylazine strips at $200 for a box of 100 strips. “To

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Five for Friday April 7: Celebrating Success in Advancing Medication Use Quality

PQA

Solidify Your Plans to Join Us in Nashville! PQA also offers a special 4-hour, pre-meeting workshop, Medication Use Quality Live, accredited for 0.4 Join us to exchange ideas, establish partnerships and build relationships with PQA members and quality leaders. Join us May 10-12 in Nashville, Tenn. hours of pharmacy CE.

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J&J, wholesalers see an end to their opioid liability hangover

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Johnson & Johnson and the ‘big three’ US pharm wholesalers say they are close to finalising a $26 billion settlement that could allow them to finally put years of litigation over their role in fuelling the opioid crisis behind them. spike in deaths in the 12 months to April 2021 to nearly 100,000.

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‘I don’t see how it ends’: expert sounds alarm on new wave of US opioids crisis

The Guardian - Pharmaceutical Industry

Two decades later, he’s still in disbelief When Dr Art Van Zee finally understood the scale of the disaster looming over his corner of rural Virginia, he naively imagined the drug industry would be just as alarmed. Dr Art Van Zee set out in the early 2000s to tell anyone who would listen how a powerful opioid was destroying lives.

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Are Tick-Borne Illnesses More of a Problem?

The People's Pharmacy

That’s bad news for pets and people who like to get out into nature. This tick is a relatively recent arrival first noted in the US in 2017. Although the first clinicians to identify Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever were indeed in the Rocky Mountains, these tick-borne illnesses are now more common in the southeastern US.