Study Highlights Opportunities for Pharmacies to Help Curb U.S. Opioid Epidemic, Bolster Other Public Health Efforts Declining public health budgets and lingering physician shortages have created a healthcare gap. Helping to fill that gap requires modest changes to government policy that would unlock community pharmacy, long considered an untapped resource for improving public health.
A Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security study funded by NACDS found that pharmacies remain an untapped resource in the effort to curb the national opioid crisis, stem the spread of antibiotic resistance, and strengthen pandemic and emergency preparedness and response.
