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Two years ago she lost her son to a pharmacy error, but rather than go to war with the profession she found more constructive ways to change the system

n the face of a public health crisis, B.C.’s community pharmacists are exploring new ways to help curb the rising tide of overdose deaths. Last year was the worst year yet, with more than 1,400 British Columbians who died from suspected illicit drug overdoses.

Karl Frank, divisional director, Bayshore Specialty Rx, is the new vice chair of the Neighbourhood Pharmacy Association of Canada (Neighbourhood Pharmacies).

Pharmacist Darcy Stann receives this year's Len Marks Pharmacy Advancement Award

Patients welcome service at Estevan Pharmasave in Sask., where doctors in short supply

A community methadone clinic has a new home, thanks to a neighbourly pharmacist. Direction 180, which has been dispensing methadone for more than 17 years from its north-end Halifax location, will move across the street this summer into the former premises of the Scotia Pharmacy.