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Ali, Ishmael (2020) Our patients with addiction often feel little more than ‘animals’ in the pharmacy — we must change. The Pharmaceutical Journal,

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Blog post: “I just want you guys to know this: you are by far the best chemist that I’ve been to. I know we are addicts and that, but that doesn’t mean we have to be treated like animals, so thanks for being kind with people like us.”

Hearing this as a trainee pharmacist, I thought to myself, what has happened to our profession — which many regard as their go-to healthcare provider — for our patients to expect to be treated as less than human?......


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