DEA Red Flags: Preventing Pharmacy White Flags & Pink Slips

Our ‚“Opioid Crisis‚” has numerous pharmacies and pharmacists being investigated by our Department of Justice and Drug Enforcement Agency for flagged concerns regarding controlled substance dispensing. This is a key situation of an ounce of prevention (education) being worth a pound of treatment (criminal enforcement). Will I lose my license? Just how far is too far? No one ever enjoys answers to difficult patient care scenarios being the cookie-cutter answers of ‚“differs patient to patient‚” . Yet, just how does one recommend to dispense medications as a pharmacist adhering to the Controlled Substance Act ‚“corresponding responsibility‚” complementary to prescribers while accounting for reasonable patient variations? This activity discusses how to provide patient care while staying within the parameters of law.