Our Impact
The work of the National Consumers League is making a difference in people’s lives across the country. Meet some of the consumers touched by our programs.
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Preventing yet another victim
Paige, 55, a Nashville wife and mother of two, answered an employment ad for secret shoppers. Before sending payment to the scammers, she reached out to NCL.
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Building a stronger generation
A grease fire flared up in Decklan’s kitchen. As his family scrambled and panicked, fearing that the whole house might erupt in flames, Decklan remained calm. He hurried over to the pantry, grabbed some baking soda, and dumped it on the fire quickly extinguishing the blaze.
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Script Your Future saved my life
Cincinnati resident Charles, 45, lost his computer business — and health insurance— during a time of economic downturn. A diabetic, Charles was now unable to afford his medication. He stopped taking it which made him seriously ill and put his life at risk.
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For a safer workplace
Jeremy is a fast-food worker who has been employed at a number of Chipotle restaurants in New York City. When he was just 20 years old, he took part in an NCL research project that revealed that management practices within the fast food chain were putting workers—and food safety for customers—at risk.
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Updates from our Members
Deterra Drug Deactivation System
The creators of the Deterra® Drug Deactivation and Disposal System have launched a new product, the Deterra Lock Box, to help pharmacies, clinics and other organizations keep large amounts of medication safe from diversion and misuse. The Deterra Lock Box fully secures the Deterra 1.0 gallon and 2.5 gallon continual use containers. Unused drugs are placed into the containers to safely deactivate them, and the lock box ensures the medications and container are safe from being stolen or misused. Each lock box is made of 18-gauge stainless steel and can be securely mounted to the wall (1.0 gallon only) or countertop. The lock box features a built-in key lock and mechanical capacity tracker with manual reset for simple medication tracking. Read this Introduction to the Deterra Lock Box to learn how our newest product can help healthcare professionals properly dispose of unneeded drugs in a safe and secure manner.
FDA Office of Women’s Health
The FDA Office of Women’s Health (OWH) is preparing for National Women’s Health Week (NWHW) 2022! While each year NWHW encourages women to make their health a priority and take care of themselves, the FDA OWH’s theme for this year is: KNOWH More to Optimize Your Maternal Health . KNOWH, or Knowledge and News on Women’s Health, is OWH’s recent initiative designed to educate and share the latest women’s health information and/ or insights that may not be well known to women, consumers, industry, health care providers, partners, and stakeholders. During NWHW, OWH will host a virtual public workshop on May 9th in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins Center of Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation. This meeting will focus on opportunities, challenges, and regulatory perspectives on Leveraging Real-World Data to Study Medication Use in Pregnancy and Lactation. You can learn more about this workshop here and register today.
In addition, on May 11th, OWH will present a continuing education webinar developed in collaboration with FDA’s Division of Pediatric and Maternal Health. This program will help learners examine how prescription drug labeling can be used to inform prescribing in pregnancy and lactation. Additional details regarding the Pregnancy and Lactation Medication Information for the Healthcare Provider webinar are forthcoming. Please check our homepage and Twitter posts as additional details and resources for NWHW are highlighted.
Healthcare Distribution Alliance
The Healthcare Distribution Alliance (HDA) recently published a new video series as part of their Health Delivered campaign. This video series, called Faces of the Supply Chain, highlights the passionate, committed, innovative and hard-working individuals that help ensure that medicines, vaccines, healthcare products and other medical supplies are available when providers and their patients need them. The employees highlighted share insights into the work they do every day to deliver more than 10 million lifesaving treatments and cures to support healthcare providers and their patients across the country.
National Community Pharmacists Association
On April 14, the National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) President Michele Belcher, owner of Grants Pass Pharmacy in Grants Pass, Ore., presented at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)-Department of Justice (DOJ) online listening forum on effects of mergers and acquisitions. In her comments, Belcher described to FTC Chair Lina M. Khan, Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter, and others how pharmacy benefit managers’ take-it-or-leave-it contracts with independent pharmacies lead to patient harms including higher costs and restricted access to care. During her remarks Belcher said that vertical consolidation in the pharmacy industry has created a perverse environment where one competitor sets another competitor’s prices, dictates their competitors’ reimbursements, uses their competitors’ data to steer patients to their own stores, and limits where and what consumers can buy. Click here for video on the forum and here for Belcher’s prepared remarks.