Month: June 2019

Pharmacies may not stock naloxone, despite statewide orders

Reuters Health, June 14, 2019. (Reuters Health) – More than three years after Pennsylvania issued a statewide order expanding access to the life-saving opioid antidote naloxone, the product was still hard to purchase in Philadelphia pharmacies, researchers found. For the current study, Dima Qato of the University of Illinois, Chicago and colleagues contacted 418 drugstores…Continue Reading Pharmacies may not stock naloxone, despite statewide orders

‘Pharmacy deserts’ a growing health concern in Chicago, experts, residents say

Chicago Tribune, June 14, 2019. In Chicago, research has shown most of these neighborhoods share a mix of characteristics: Their residents tend to be low-income, immigrants, and/or black and Latino. And, experts argue, given the widening scope of services many pharmacies are providing, including physicals, immunizations, drug counseling, sexually transmitted infection screening and other laboratory…Continue Reading ‘Pharmacy deserts’ a growing health concern in Chicago, experts, residents say