Pharmacist's Letter Canada

February 2019 Issue

Patients with CV disease will ask for your help to quit smoking....

Chart: Smoking Cessation Drug Therapy
Chart: E-Cigarette and Vaping FAQs
Guideline: Decision Pathway on Tobacco Cessation Treatment, American College of Cardiology, 2018

Nexium 24HR (esomeprazole) will move out from behind pharmacy counters....

Aortic aneurysm rupture is the latest quinolone risk....

You'll see more focus on the role of medications to treat patients with alcohol use disorder....

Tinnitus Pain

Nexium 24HR
esomeprazole
An OTC Proton Pump Inhibitor that has changed from Schedule II to Schedule III

Probuphine
buprenorphine
A partial opioid agonist subdermal implant for treatment of opioid use disorder.

Fucibet
fusidic acid/betamethasone valerate
A topical antibiotic and corticosteroid for eczema with secondary S. aureus infection.