Lorinda Anderson, PharmD, BCPS, professor at Oregon State University College of Pharmacy
“Pharmacists in Oregon rang in the New Year with permission to prescribe birth control. A state law effective January 1, 2016, authorizes Oregon pharmacists to prescribe and dispense transdermal and oral contraceptives to women aged 18 or older and also those younger than 18 who have received a previous prescription for contraceptive patches or oral contraceptives from a physician.
“Lorinda Anderson, PharmD, BCPS, a professor at Oregon State University who helped design the requisite 5-hour training course for pharmacists, told Pharmacy Times that the program fills a continuing education (CE) gap regarding birth control therapeutics and prescribing. ‘There are a lot of CE programs available that talk about therapeutics, and maybe even some about prescribing that are geared toward doctors, but none that are geared toward pharmacists prescribing,’ she explained. ‘How a pharmacist could incorporate [birth control prescribing] services like this into their pharmacy…has never been taught before.'”
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