Fighting the Opioid Epidemic

AmerisourceBergen manages the transportation of medication, including controlled substances, from manufacturers to licensed pharmacies and hospitals.  Our role in the healthcare supply chain uniquely positions us to contribute important expertise and resources to the battle against opioid abuse in the United States.   

 

Ensuring Safe and Secure Drug Distribution

AmerisourceBergen does not prescribe drugs, provide them directly to patients or take any action to drive demand for them. We transport medicine from manufacturers to licensed pharmacies, hospitals and other dispensaries.

Ensuing the safety and security of this process has always been paramount. To achieve this, we continuously evaluate, enhance, strengthen and expand the proven measures we have implemented to maintain the integrity of every order we ship. These processes include:

For more than a decade, these procedures have enabled us to report and stop tens of thousands of suspicious orders. This does not include countless other orders that were never placed with AmerisourceBergen because of our refusal to provide service.

Maintaining Operational Integrity  

 

AmerisourceBergen takes very seriously its neutrality as a distributor of controlled substances. As such, we:                       

Advocating for the Highest Regulatory Standards

Opioids are heavily regulated by the government; from the time they are produced to the time they are dispensed to patients. Every stakeholder in this process — the manufacturer, distributor, prescriber and dispenser — must strictly adhere to requirements outlined in the Federal Code of Regulations.

AmerisourceBergen enthusiastically endorses these guidelines and strongly advocates for the implementation of additional measures. 

Community Outreach

The AmerisourceBergen Foundation remains committed to providing communities with the resources needed to help prevent opioid abuse and misuse. We continue to evaluate how we can best leverage our unique resources to support initiatives or organizations that aim to address the nation’s opioid epidemic. 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

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