Archive for February 2017
Colorado Pharmacists Can Prescribe Contraception
With the passage of Colorado SB 16-135, which allows the Boards of Pharmacy, Nursing, and Medicine to collaborate on statewide protocols to address public health needs and improve patient outcomes, Colorado becomes the third state to authorize pharmacists to prescribe oral contraception. Once trained, qualified pharmacists will screen all patients seeking pharmacist-prescribed contraception for potential…
Read MoreNew Jersey signs Five-Day Opioid Prescription Bill into Law
Last week, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie signed into law Assembly Bill 3, which, among other things: 1. Limits doctors’ ability to issue first-time opioid prescriptions for more than five days; 2. Mandates that doctors create a pain-management treatment plan regarding the use of opioids and review prescriptions every three months; and 3. Requires doctors…
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