DID YOU KNOW THAT WITHOUT PHARMACY COMPOUNDING:

• Children would not have available to them syrups, elixirs, suspensions, and emulsions for most drugs that make it easier to take medications
• Elders would not have access to new dosage forms to make it easier to take their medications  patients, while hospitalized, would receive numerous different drugs individually instead of combined in a single intravenous admixture
• Cancer drugs, if they could be given, would have to be given individually, rather than combined, which would result in longer administration times
• Physicians would not have most nuclear pharmaceuticals available to diagnose or treat illnesses  adults would be limited to very few strengths of drugs, unless they were willing to split the tablets to obtain the dose needed
• Therapy of many types would not be available to patients, to include bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT)
• Patients would need to take drugs orally or by injection instead of by the newer methods of delivery into the body, to include transdermal gels, etc.
• Drugs that are discontinued due to “economic reasons drugs that are in short supply would not be available and this would interrupt a patient’s therapy that took so long to stabilize
• Orphan drugs would be available to limited patients only  patients would not have the option of new therapeutic approaches that physicians would like to use  patients who are allergic to a preservative, dye, flavor, or other ingredient in a commercial product would have no options
• Individuals maintained on “intravenous feeding” would require several different individual components administered separately instead of a single, compounded mixture  patients would not have available to them the options of gummy bears, popsicles, most of the transdermal gels, oral inhalation solutions, medication sticks, iontophoresis solutions, phonophoresis solutions, etc.
• Infants who are born prematurely would not have available to them many lifesaving and life sustaining drugs
• Infants would not have available to them many drugs