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Retail pharmacy alive, well, needs to be heard.(National Association of Chain Drug Stores)(Brief...

Publication: MMR
Date: Monday, August 26 2002

SAN DIEGO -- Retail leaders made the National Association of Chain Drug Stores 2002 Pharmacy & Technology conference a rallying point for greater recognition of community pharmacy's place in the health care system.

"Community pharmacy is alive and well," said Mark Griffin, president and chief executive officer of Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Lewis Drugs and chairman of NACDS. "But too often we just don't have enough say."

Noting that NACDS member pharmacies fill more than 2 billion prescriptions a year, or over 70% of the total number dispensed in t

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