Dr. Chrystian Pereira

of our main things that we're trained to do is evaluate for safety so we're just always supposed to kind of think about safety as part of looking at in fact at the college pharmacy we say indication efficacy safety and convenience those are the ways we evaluate like someone's medication regimen just that's just ingrained into every single pharmacy student that graduates from our program in any program really okay but

of our main things that we're trained to do is evaluate for safety so we're just always supposed to kind of think about safety as part of looking at in fact at the college pharmacy we say indication efficacy safety and convenience those are the ways we evaluate like someone's medication regimen just that's just ingrained into every single pharmacy student that graduates from our program in any program really okay but

Pharmacy and the medical complex has a lot of blame to share about the opioid epidemic. There was a problem in kind of over-prescribing and over-dispensing and over-administering opioids that we're still reeling from.

Pharmacy and the medical complex has a lot of blame to share about the opioid epidemic. There was a problem in kind of over-prescribing and over-dispensing and over-administering opioids that we're still reeling from.

As a society today and it's still a huge issue so that that is no joke and so there's there's always to say that there's there's blame to go around and pharmacy and wholesalers have a lot that they can kind of like talk to around this now. what are we doing to fix the problem? And this goes back to being a resource. Now, I think, Barry, you kind of talked about immunizations as a resource.

As a society today and it's still a huge issue so that that is no joke and so there's there's always to say that there's there's blame to go around and pharmacy and wholesalers have a lot that they can kind of like talk to around this now. what are we doing to fix the problem? And this goes back to being a resource. Now, I think, Barry, you kind of talked about immunizations as a resource.

In COVID, when there was a shutdown and people were told to stay home, don't go to work, work from home, pharmacies were given a dispensary, like they're called essential workers. They said, oh yeah, but if you work in a pharmacy, you need to go. We didn't have a vaccine for COVID.

In COVID, when there was a shutdown and people were told to stay home, don't go to work, work from home, pharmacies were given a dispensary, like they're called essential workers. They said, oh yeah, but if you work in a pharmacy, you need to go. We didn't have a vaccine for COVID.

We just knew these places had to stay open because they had to kind of be a resource to people so people could not miss their medications and become less healthy. So that was the thing. Likewise, pharmacies can be a resource to fix other like health ills.

We just knew these places had to stay open because they had to kind of be a resource to people so people could not miss their medications and become less healthy. So that was the thing. Likewise, pharmacies can be a resource to fix other like health ills.

So Clarence, you're saying about opioids, pharmacies have like now policy where they can prescribe naloxone or can prescribe opioids, opioid antagonists to prevent opioids. And that is one way a pharmacy can contribute as a resource. Pharmacies can also do hazard reduction.

So Clarence, you're saying about opioids, pharmacies have like now policy where they can prescribe naloxone or can prescribe opioids, opioid antagonists to prevent opioids. And that is one way a pharmacy can contribute as a resource. Pharmacies can also do hazard reduction.

Pharmacies can sell clean needles for those that use needles, maybe for illicit reasons, but still clean needles to reduce illicit. And that's a policy by the state of Minnesota where we can do this to reduce hazard to the population. And these are examples of how pharmacies can be resources for the community to fix or to help problems.

Pharmacies can sell clean needles for those that use needles, maybe for illicit reasons, but still clean needles to reduce illicit. And that's a policy by the state of Minnesota where we can do this to reduce hazard to the population. And these are examples of how pharmacies can be resources for the community to fix or to help problems.

And so vaccinations, prescribing to like hazard reduce, to keep people safe, these are what local pharmacies can do for a community.

And so vaccinations, prescribing to like hazard reduce, to keep people safe, these are what local pharmacies can do for a community.

Yeah. You know, public health is one of our core curriculums. I give a lot of lectures at the College of Pharmacy on public health. We have pharmacists, you know, a lot of like one of my favorite stories is like the cryptococcal like epidemic in Milwaukee.

Yeah. You know, public health is one of our core curriculums. I give a lot of lectures at the College of Pharmacy on public health. We have pharmacists, you know, a lot of like one of my favorite stories is like the cryptococcal like epidemic in Milwaukee.

It was recognized by pharmacists because people were coming in like we were like the Milwaukee pharmacists were selling out of anti-diarrheal medication. Like, why is this happening? Why is this happening? Calling into the uh, state public health to say like, Hey, something is going on. And we are, we pharmacy can be the canary in the coal mine can say like, Hey, what is going on?

It was recognized by pharmacists because people were coming in like we were like the Milwaukee pharmacists were selling out of anti-diarrheal medication. Like, why is this happening? Why is this happening? Calling into the uh, state public health to say like, Hey, something is going on. And we are, we pharmacy can be the canary in the coal mine can say like, Hey, what is going on?