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Prescription Assistance for Your Patients

Do you have patients who are having trouble paying for medicine? The Partnership for Prescription Assistance (PPA) can help. Sponsored by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) and its member companies, PPA...

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Prescription Drug Diversion video

The Ohio State Board of Pharmacy has produced a new video to help identify the warning signs of prescription drug diversion. The video, Red Flags, can be viewed on the Board’s website at http://www.pharmacy.ohio.gov...

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DEA new Schedule IV Classifications

Effective August 18th, a United States Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) ruling that tramadol and products containing tramadol will be classified as Schedule IV controlled substances, (this supersedes a new rule adopted by the Ohio...

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Change in Ohio Revised Code

A change in the Ohio Revised Code, as required by HB 483, permits a prescriber or their delegate to request information from the Ohio Automated Rx Reporting System (OARRS) relating to the mother of...

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Ohio Prescribers

Ohio prescribers and pharmacists can now request patient prescription information from West Virginia through the Ohio Automated Rx Reporting System (OARRS). This new feature will further enhance the ability to prevent the misuse and...

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Measles outbreak

As of May 7, there were 44 confirmed measles cases in six Ohio counties ( Ashland , Coshocton, Holmes, Knox, Richland , and Wayne). The outbreak began, April 21, when the Ohio Department of...

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Education and Assistance

The Ohio Physicians Health Program OPHP aims to get information out to healthcare professionals regarding Ohio’s “One-Bite” rule. In 1987, the Ohio General Assembly carved out a one time “one-bite” exception for residents and...

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Keep kids’ ID’s safe.

Protecting your child’s identity is about to get a whole lot easier and cheaper, thanks to a new free service.  Child identity theft is one of the worst forms of identity theft because it...

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Montgomery County – Dayton, OH Public Health Emergency Response

It is necessary that Public Health – Dayton & Montgomery County (Ohio) respond to various public health emergencies which occur beyond the normal business hours of operation.  Please use this correspondence as a reference...

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