Director Martin Dix Akerman, LLP 106 East College Avenue, Suite 1200 Tallahassee, FL 32301 Work: 850-224-9634 martin.dix@akerman.com
Treasurer Anne O’Brien Quarles & Brady 300 N. LaSalle Street, Suite 4000 Chicago, IL 60654 Work: 312-715-5259 anne.o’brien@quarles.com
Director Charles Hartig CVS Health 445 Great Circle Rd Nashville, TN 37228 Work: 513-581-1105 charles.hartig@omnicare.com
Immediate Past President Steve Gray Kaiser Permanente 12254 Bellflower Blvd 2nd Fl Downey, CA 90242 Work: 562-658-3660 steve.w.gray@kp.org
Director Aaron Moore Salsbury, Clements, Bekman, Marder & Adkins LLC 300 West Pratt Street, Suite 450 Baltimore, MD 21201 Work: 410-539-6633 amoore@scbmalaw.com
Executive Director Kristen Ball, CMP 3085 Stevenson Drive, Suite 200 Springfield, IL 62703 Work: 217-529-6948 administration@aspl.org
Director Shannon Panther Washington State University Department of Pharmacotherapy 412 E. Spokane Falls Blvd Spokane, WA 99202 Work: 509-368-6555 shannon.panther@wsu.edu
NALOXONE Maine legislators fix year-old narcotic antagonists bill to finally allow pharmacists to dispense naloxone without prescriptions; passage vote exceeds majority needed to survive another veto by Gov. LePage According to a report in the Bangor Daily News on June 26, the Maine Legislature passed an amendment to a year-old statute that originally was designed to allow distribution of opiate antagonists, such as naloxone, without prescriptions in Maine pharmacies. However, the original bill was written in such a way as to still require prescriptions. The amendment adds "may dispense" in the relevant section of the statute, and requires the Maine Board of Pharmacy to promulgate rules and require training of pharmacists who may dispense the drugs. It was passed as an emergency measure with majorities exceeding two-thirds in each legislative chamber, to forestall another veto by Governor Paul LePage. LePage famously noted, when he vetoed the previous bill, that a drug like naloxone "does not truly save lives, it merely extends them until the next overdose." The 2016 Legislature overrode his veto. [Ricker N. Pharmacists may soon be able to sell Narcan without a prescription. BDN Maine Health, 2017 Jun 26; http://bit.ly/2seNgrl]
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