What would you do if you could no longer get or afford medication for your pet?? This has become a reality for California residents due to the highly restrictive regulations put into effect by the California Board of Pharmacy.
What this means to California pet owners and veterinarians:
- The cost of medication will increase substantially because of expensive and unnecessary testing
- To avoid excess testing costs, some compounders are substituting less-than-desirable bases in their preparations
- Some forms of medications have been made unavailable
- This has caused smaller pharmacies to even close permanently
"HOW CAN I MAKE A DIFFERENCE"? On April 18th, 2017 the CA Board of Pharmacy is having their board hearing and it is open to the public. We ask if you are in the Sacramento area please attend to voice your concerns and opinions. You can also call the board at 916-574-7900 or write them at: CA Board of Pharmacy, 1625 N. Market Blvd., Suite N219, Sacramento, CA. 95834. Or contact your local legislator http://www.legislature.ca.gov/
Please use the link below to access CA Board of Pharmacy regulations.
31 Comments
I am the inventory manager for a small animal hospital. Increasingly, drugs are unavailable or costly to the point that we cannot provide them for our patients. Then strict California compounding laws, in addition, make it more difficult than for other states to provided timely and costly options for our patients.
Without compounded medications available for veterinary patients, many patients would not receive appropriate therapy. This is due to drug formulation (size, liquid vs pill) or ability of the owner to administer the medication. Compounded medications have allowed me to treat many patients that the owners could not administer the traditional medications and prolong a high quality of life in the pet.
It is vital for practices to maintain the standard of care to have certain medications available, available medications in an appropriate milligram, and to have an affordable option. Veterinary medicine is not human medicine. We need realistic options so we can treat patients!
It is extremely important that speedy,realiable compounded be available to pets or many unnecessary pet deaths will occur. Many drugs made for humans were developed using animal but are not marketed in pet sized forms. Pets should able to benefit from these life saving drugs too Dr. Tamsen Taylor
I am a senior on limited income. My two cats form my only family. Their health and well-being means so much to me. Please reconsider you unreasonable mandate.This regulation will serve no value except increasing medication costs. It is wrong! Please do the right thing for those who truly benefit from the love of a pet.
These regulations are already affecting the veterinary industry's ability get certain drugs in California or drugs in certain formats. I have already seen the negative impact on patients and has been very frustrating to give care. I am very concerned about the impacts this will have on the compounding options in the future and that this will shut down California compounding pharmacies while other state's pharmacies will be less affected.
Not another uncalled for CA rule!!!
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What would you do if you could no longer get or afford medication for your pet?? This has become a reality for California residents due to the highly restrictive regulations put into effect by the California Board of Pharmacy.
What this means to California pet owners and veterinarians:
- The cost of medication will increase substantially because of expensive and unnecessary testing
- To avoid excess testing costs, some compounders are substituting less-than-desirable bases in their preparations
- Some forms of medications have been made unavailable
- This has caused smaller pharmacies to even close permanently
"HOW CAN I MAKE A DIFFERENCE"? On April 18th, 2017 the CA Board of Pharmacy is having their board hearing and it is open to the public. We ask if you are in the Sacramento area please attend to voice your concerns and opinions. You can also call the board at 916-574-7900 or write them at: CA Board of Pharmacy, 1625 N. Market Blvd., Suite N219, Sacramento, CA. 95834. Or contact your local legislator http://www.legislature.ca.gov/
Please use the link below to access CA Board of Pharmacy regulations.
31 Comments
I live in CA and work with veterinarians who are telling me daily that they are already affected by these new restrictions. They simply can't get vital medications that they are used to having ready accesss to. Vets practice differently than regular physicians,and that should be addressed in future legislation asap.
I am the inventory manager for a small animal hospital. Increasingly, drugs are unavailable or costly to the point that we cannot provide them for our patients. Then strict California compounding laws, in addition, make it more difficult than for other states to provided timely and costly options for our patients.
Without compounded medications available for veterinary patients, many patients would not receive appropriate therapy. This is due to drug formulation (size, liquid vs pill) or ability of the owner to administer the medication. Compounded medications have allowed me to treat many patients that the owners could not administer the traditional medications and prolong a high quality of life in the pet.
It is vital for practices to maintain the standard of care to have certain medications available, available medications in an appropriate milligram, and to have an affordable option. Veterinary medicine is not human medicine. We need realistic options so we can treat patients!
It is extremely important that speedy,realiable compounded be available to pets or many unnecessary pet deaths will occur. Many drugs made for humans were developed using animal but are not marketed in pet sized forms. Pets should able to benefit from these life saving drugs too Dr. Tamsen Taylor
I am a senior on limited income. My two cats form my only family. Their health and well-being means so much to me. Please reconsider you unreasonable mandate.This regulation will serve no value except increasing medication costs. It is wrong! Please do the right thing for those who truly benefit from the love of a pet.
These regulations are already affecting the veterinary industry's ability get certain drugs in California or drugs in certain formats. I have already seen the negative impact on patients and has been very frustrating to give care. I am very concerned about the impacts this will have on the compounding options in the future and that this will shut down California compounding pharmacies while other state's pharmacies will be less affected.
Not another uncalled for CA rule!!!
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I live in CA and work with veterinarians who are telling me daily that they are already affected by these new restrictions. They simply can't get vital medications that they are used to having ready accesss to. Vets practice differently than regular physicians,and that should be addressed in future legislation asap.