PittPharmacy's APhA-ASP chapter was recently awarded a grant through The Cardinal Health Foundation's Prescription Drug Abuse and Misuse Prevention Grant Program. PharmD students Meera Vachhani, (2016) Joshua Niznik (2015), Katherine McGuire (2015) and Danielle Mayer (2015) developed a program entitled PHARxM: Parents Helping to Avoid Rx Misuse. The PHARxM Program will focus on educating the parents of the Pittsburgh area on the dangers of prescription drug abuse. The program will provide parents with the knowledge and tools to make interventions in their own communities. PHARxM: Parents Helping to Avoid Rx Misuse will be launched during the spring 2014 semester with the assistance of the members of the APhA-ASP Generation Rx Committee.
Faculty members include APhA-ASP chapter advisors Dennis Swanson, MS, Pamela Smithburger, PharmD, BCPS and Neal Benedict, PharmD.
