Let's Have Some Fun With Lloyd Duplantis While We Wait For The Cat To Untie APhA's Tongue.

Here's where we stand on APhA "awardgate" as of this afternoon:

1) The APhA Foundation gives an award to our old friend Lloyd Duplantis, who, it turns out, is about more than keeping birth control pills away from people he feels aren't smart enough to know the risks. Turns out he's a horrible homophobe as well. Go here to catch up on the details if you're just tuning in. 

2) APhA cites Lloyd's homophobic book in the press release announcing their award.

3) The fact that they are supporting bigotry is brought to APhA's attention, whereupon they do...

...absolutely nothing. Not one word from them so far.

Go here to add your name to a petition asking APhA to take back their bone-headed move. 

4) I take that back. They are doing something. They are taking down critical comments posted on the blog of their CEO, Thomas Menighan. Go here, quickly, before they erase the comment field again. 

So to sum up, APhA makes stupid move, refuses to own up to it, and is now trying to erase online evidence of what they've done.

But you can't erase this Thomas Menighan. So today we'll start a new series I'll call "Words APhA Has Honored." We'll take an actual, real excerpt from the book APhA plugged in their press release and put it up here for all the world to see, followed by a little debunking, commentary, or maybe just uproarious laughter

Ready? Here we go:

Here is one sentence from a pill insert- a powerful, real statement which alone should cause many pharmacists to shy away and opt out of filling prescriptions for such dangerous chemicals.  

"The use of oral contraceptives is associated with increased risks...of myocardial infarction, thromboembolism, stroke, hepatic neo-plasia, gall bladder disease, and hypertension." 

Wow. That is scary. But wait, there's more:

Serious cardiovascular, cerebrovascular, and vascular events, including myocardial infarction, sudden cardiac death, ventricular arrhythmia, cerebrovascular hemorrhage, transient ischemic attack, hypertension, subarachnoid and intracerebral hemorrhages, and pulmonary hemorrhage have been reported post-marketing 

Holy crap I'm even more scared now. Except that second quote wasn't from Lloyd's book. I cut and pasted it from Viagra's "pill insert," more commonly known among real pharmacists as the prescribing information.

Because real pharmacists know you can find a a scary line in the "pill insert" of any drug on the market. I could write you up a description of aspirin that would scare your socks off.

APhA knows this too, but chose to honor this guy anyway.

There's plenty more where this came from Thomas Menighan. Enough material to literally keep this thread alive for years. And it'll keep coming, one by one, post after post in a place where you can't erase it, until your organization owns up to what it's done.

It's up to you how long this goes on.