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As a physician, your practice depends on your reputation. For most of your patients, that is based on solving their problems using methods and medicines that are readily available. But your reputation also depends on your ability to meet the needs of that small percentage of patients that don't respond to traditional treatments. You need resources and tools to help you meet those needs.
Specialty Pharmacy is a unique pharmacy practice that can turn the problems you face into opportunities to achieve therapeutic outcomes. Our goal is to provide you with the resources you need to meet your patients needs. We achieve these goal through the practice of compounding, the creation of customized medication. This allows you as the physician to prescribe medication that is not commercially available, or to place available medications in an alternate dosage form that meet your patients needs. We can help you create therapeutic programs for your patients that may differ from the ordinary. We can also make suggestions based on our years of experience, and what we have seen work successfully in other situations. To see all of the many ways that we can enhance your practice, go to our Services page. |
Pharmacy Fact The History of Morphine and other Opium Alkaloids "... The first concrete reference to opium in history appears in the writings of Theophrastus in the third centry BC. The word opium itself is derived from the Greek name for juice, the drug being obtained from the juice of the poppy capsules. Arabian traders introduced the drug to the Orient, where it was employed mainly for the control of dysenteries. By the middle of the sixteenth century, the uses of opium that are still valid were fairly well understood in Europe." "In 1803, a young German pharmacist, Serturner, isolated and described an opium alkaloid that he named morphine, after Morpheus, the Greek god of dreams. The discovery of other alkaloids in opium quickly followed that of morphine (codeine by Robiquet in 1832, papaverine by Merck in 1848), and by the middle of the nineteeth century the use of pure alkaloids rather than crude opium preparations began to spread throughout the medical world." Goodman, Louis S. and Alfred Gilman The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics. Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., New York, 1975. |
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