Rhode Island and Massachusetts have started to position pharmacists to play an essential role in drug addiction treatment through collaborative practice agreements and standing orders for pharmacy-based naloxone distribution, respectively.
“With an unprecedented number of opioid overdoses globally, an expanding pool of opioid use initiates in the US, and an aging baby boomer generation with high lifetime drug use and high burdens of chronic pain often treated with opioids, it is imperative that creative, sustainable solutions…are implemented,” the researchers concluded. “Pharmacy-based naloxone is one public health intervention that better leverages pharmacies’ capacity and pharmacists’ skills.”
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