American Pharmacists Association Votes to Discourage Pharmacists from Participating in Executions

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px; font-size: 11.1999998092651px;">On March 30, 2015, the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) House of Delegates – the group’s representative assembly – <a href="http://www.pharmacist.com/apha-house-delegates-adopts-policy-discouraging-pharmacist-participation-execution">adopted a policy</a> discouraging pharmacists from participating in executions. </span><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px; font-size: 11.1999998092651px;">The APhA policy is only one sentence long: “</span><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px; font-size: 11.1999998092651px;">The American Pharmacists Association discourages pharmacist participation in executions on the basis that such activities are fundamentally contrary to the role of pharmacists as providers of health care.”</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"><span style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">In defending the new policy, APhA Executive Vice President and CEO, Thomas E. Menighan, BSPharm, MBA, ScD (Hon), FAPhA, stated, “Pharmacists are health care providers and pharmacist participation in executions conflicts wit...
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