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To promote pharmacy as a profession and the role of the community
retail pharmacy in the American concept of free enterprise by
maintaining freedom of choice of pharmacy to all citizens of the
state.
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To
maintain and expand programs providing enhancement of education for
the membership to strengthen their professional and business
ability, and to encourage schools of pharmacy to place adequate
emphasis on the practical realities of modern retail practice.
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To
provide effective support and sponsorship of programs to encourage
careers in retail pharmacy.
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To disseminate professional and economic information to the
membership and to cooperate and participate with all government
agencies in making available health information through the
pharmacies of the nation to the public it serves.
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To maintain vigilance in administrative, legislative, and
governmental affairs affecting the practice of retail pharmacy in
the interest of the public welfare and to assure professional
control of the pharmacy by pharmacists.
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To
urge and assure representation and recognition of retail pharmacy
along with other health professions on all local, state, and federal
agencies serving the health and welfare of the public
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To
encourage and support member pharmacists to participate effectively
in political and administrative activity to assure quality, equity,
and freedom of choice in all third party prepaid prescription
programs financed by private or governmental sources.
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To
exchange information among other health professions, to promote
mutual understanding in areas affecting the practice of these health
professions.
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To
educate the lay public in the proper use of drugs, both prescription
and non-prescription, and in the professional pharmacist's role in
safe and effective drug counseling, therapy, and administration.
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To
recognize that the future of community retail pharmacy is tied
inextricably to the future of small business itself, and thus
requires a continuing effort on behalf of small business in general.
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