The Opioid Crisis, Aggressive Oversight by National Wholesalers and the DEA : PSSNY

March 30, 2025

 

 

Target Audience

All pharmacists

Learning Objectives

Objectives:

·    State the national wholesalers’ obligations to cooperate with the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”) regarding the wholesaler’s oversight of their respective pharmacy clients-controlled substance purchases as a result of a recent federal court settlement regarding the national Opioid crisis.

·    Describe a pharmacist’s corresponding responsibility regarding the dispensing of controlled drugs, and that such prescribing practitioners should acknowledge such shared responsibility.

·    Recognize the significant financial penalties that the national wholesalers have agreed to pay to the federal government as a result of their prior lax enforcement of their respective pharmacy clients purchase patterns.

·    State their personal financial and professional responsibility as a pharmacist registrant to the DEA regarding record keeping violations and related lax due diligence policies if so, found by the DEA.

·    State the meaning of the national wholesaler’s responsibility to report suspicious orders of controlled substances electronically to the DEA under the SUSPICIOUS ORDER REPORTING SYSTEM (SORS)

Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 3.00 ACPE
    The Arnold & Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education.
Course opens: 
03/26/2025
Course expires: 
08/01/2025
Event starts: 
03/30/2025 - 12:00pm EDT
Event ends: 
03/30/2025 - 3:00pm EDT
Cost:
$0.00
Rating: 
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St. John's University D'Angelo Hall
United States

Location: St. John's University: 8000 Utopia Parkway, Queens NY 11439

8000 Utopia Parkway

Queens, New York  11439

United States

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James Schiffer, RPh, Esq & Carlos Aquino

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Available Credit

  • 3.00 ACPE
    The Arnold & Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education.

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