IACP Successful in Introducing Senate Bill 2825

IACP Successful in Introducing Senate Bill 2825 by iacprx

Working with U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Sherrod Brown (D-OH), theInternational Academy of Compounding Pharmacists (IACP) successfully has introduced legislation that would allow a pharmacist to deliver a controlled substance to a practitioner.

S. 2825 ‘‘Ensuring Safe Access to Prescription Medication Act of 2014’’ is designed to "amend the Controlled Substances Act to treat as dispensing the delivery of a controlled substance by a pharmacy to a practitioner, pursuant to a patient-specific prescription of the practitioner, under certain circumstances."

"This has been a long-term goal of the Academy," said IACP President Pat Stephens, PharmD. "When we established our 2014 legislative agenda in February, resolving the constructive transfer issue once and for all was one of the top three directives we gave our Washington offices. Even while we keep our focus on monitoring the implementation of the Drug Quality & Security Act, IACP continues its work on other critical issues affecting our members."    

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