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Areas of pharmacy practice include:

Disease -state management

Clinical interventions (refusal to dispense a drug, recommendation to change and/or add a drug to a patient's pharmacotherapy, dosage adjustments, etc.)

Professional Development

Pharmaceutical care

Extemporaneous pharmaceutical Compounding

Communication skills

Health Psychology

Patient care

Drug abuse prevention

Prevention of Drug Interaction s, including drug-drug interactions or drug-food interactions

Prevention (or minimization) of Adverse Event s

Incompatibility

Drug Discovery and evaluation

Detect Pharmacotherapy -related problems, such as:

---The patient is taking a drug which he/she does not need.

---The patient is taking a drug for a specific disease, other than one afflicting the patient.

---The patient needs a drug for a specific disease, but is not receiving it.

---The patient is taking a drug underdosed.

---The patient is taking a drug Overdosed .

---The patient is having an adverse effect to a specific drug.

---The patient is suffering from a Drug Interaction .