DEA Red Flags: Preventing Pharmacy White Flags & Pink Slips
Learn about providing patient care as a pharmacist within the Controlled Substance Act's parameters. Avoid legal issues while dispensing medications.
About this course
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.
Course Accreditation
This course is approved for the following professions. You can get more details on each profession by clicking on it.
Instructors
Mark Garofoli, PharmD, MBA, BCGP, CPE is a Clinical Assistant Professor and Director of Experiential Learning for the West Virginia University (WVU) School of Pharmacy (SoP), a faculty member in the WVU School of Medicine Pain Fellowship Program, and a Clinical Pain Management Pharmacist at the WVU Medicine Center for Integrative Pain Management. Dr. Garofoli received his PharmD at the University of Pittsburgh SoP in 2004 and his MBA from Strayer University in 2008. He is board certified in Geriatric Care (BGCP) along with being a certified pain educator (CPE) and certified tobacco treatment specialist (CTTS). He began his career with CVS Health in community pharmacy management, then worked as a Humana Healthcare MTM clinical pharmacist, leading to the development of patient-centered and managed care centered programs and the Safe & Effective Management of Pain state guidelines.
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