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Show National Pharmacy Week Happy Drug World Attracts Hippies And Housewives Corresponding with National Pharmacy Week is the first anniversary anni-versary of the College of Pharmacy Phar-macy building south of the University Univer-sity Hospital. The University offers a five year course in pharmacy, and last year graduated 60 students. It is the only College of Pharmacy in the state. Theme for the week is '"This Week and Every Week . . . Your Pharmacist Works for Better Community Com-munity Health." Dan Verde is chairman of the week's activities, and Clyde Nielson is president of the student branch of the American Ameri-can Pharmaceutical Association (APhA). A hippy and a housewife have something in common in a world where LSD is used to escape problems prob-lems and tranquilizers to ease tensions ten-sions after battling the kids all day. Drugs, their abuse and the law, will be discussed by William T. Skinner, pharmacist and lawyer for Smith, Kline and French Laboratories, Labora-tories, in Skaggs Hall Auditorium Wednesday, Oct. 4, at noon. The public is welcome. In connection with National Pharmacy Week, Oct. 1-7, the College Col-lege of Pharmacy is sponsoring the lecture and a display in the Ute Apothecary. National Pharmacy Week National Pharmacy Week is an annual event focusing on the need . for better health care, more frequent fre-quent medical examinations, and better preventive measures. The role of the pharmacist has changed from the days when a doc tor gave the patient a prescription and hoped that it would work. The day has also past when the pharmacist, phar-macist, a link between the public and the doctor, mixed the medication. medica-tion. But the responsibilities are also different. "The pharmacist is dealing with far more potent drugs," said one pharmacist, "He must see that the prescription is the correct drug, the right dosage, and then fill it properly." prop-erly." Pharmacist is Specialist The pharmacist is a specialist in drugs. He must know their composition, com-position, chemical properties, manufacture, man-ufacture, uses, potential danger and storage requirements. Often a patient will go to a pharmacist before going to a doctor doc-tor to see what "home remedies" he can prescribe. If the pharmacist makes a mistake he is just as liable lia-ble as the doctor. |
