California

The Board of Pharmacy, University of California, San Francisco School of Pharmacy and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration are hosting an educational forum on Saturday, January 27 in San Francisco to train pharmacists on drug diversion trends, pharmacy burglaries, prescription drug abuse and overdose prevention. Pharmacists will receive six hours of continuing education credit for attending the day-long event, plus an additional hour can be earned at the end of the day to meet the requirements of the pharmacist protocol to provide naloxone. Space is limited, and preregistration is strongly encouraged. To register, email your full name and license number to registration@dca.ca.gov.

Also in California…The Board of Pharmacy has added an additional Public Board Meeting on Thursday, January 11 and published a Notice of Meeting Agenda.

Also in California…In a letter sent in December, NACDS, in partnership with the California Retailers Association and the California Pharmacists Association, continues to press the Department of Health Care Services to implement Assembly Bill 1114 (2016, Eggman) to pay pharmacists for providing certain healthcare services.

For more information, contact NACDS’ Mary Staples at 817-442-1155.