School Contacts - Click on Names for information:
Alumnus of the University of Utah School on Alcoholism and Other Drug Dependencies
David Eagerton PhD, Presbyterian College School of Pharmacy
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PRN organization information as of 6/2007:
South
Carolina Pharmacy Association
1405 Calhoun Street, Columbia, South
Carolina 29201
Phone #: (803)
354-9977 Web site: http://www.scrx.org/
Chairman of the
SCRIPT support group: Scott Padgett R.Ph. (Non -paid position.)
803-933-9183
ext. 118,
E-mail: Scott.Padgett@gmail.com
South Carolina
Recovery & Intervention Pharmacist Team (SCRIPT)
Phone #: (803)
479-5314
Monitoring Organization: South Carolina Recovering
Professional Program (RPP)
3600 Forest Drive, Suite 205, Columbia, S.C.
29204-4006
Phone#: (803)
737-9280 Fax: (803)
737-9141 Website: http://www.scrpp.org/pharmacists.htm
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SCRIPT a support group, affiliated with SCPhA, for Pharmacists who are clients in the Recovering Professional Program. RPP is a confidential referral and monitoring program designed for physicians, nurses, pharmacists and dentists in South Carolina who are suffering from problems related to substance abuse and dependence, or from a dual diagnosis of addiction and mental illness. The program offers an effective way to ensure that impaired professionals receive the help they need as quickly as possible. The ultimate goal of the program is to help the professional return to safe practice - a decision that benefits the individual, the profession and society at large - by ensuring that the professional complies with an established treatment protocol and appropriate continuing care. An alternative to the board disciplinary process, operating independently from both boards and associations, RPP provides accountable, consistent and confidential monitoring for both voluntary and board-referred participants to ensure safe practice of health professionals in South Carolina.
Other Information RPAS - Recovering Professionals Assistance Program. Completely separate from RPP. A 503 (c) tax-exempt program. Now raising funds from individual donations, working toward donations from corporations, grants, and charitable organizations. These funds will be used for recovering professionals without income, or with low paying incomes, while waiting for licenses to be reinstated. The professionals will be awarded these funds as a loan, scholarship or as a gift (in situations where the professional has no income. RPAS is in its infancy state, having started about 4 months ago. The funds are controlled by an executive committee composed of a physician, pharmacist, nurse, dentist and 2 or 3 at-large members two who are nurses. This committee will grow to about 10 – 12 persons. There will be an advisory committee composed of high profile leaders from all walks of the business community (meeting twice a year). The executive committee meets at least quarterly an on call by the chairman.
What about funding? RPP does charge client fees, sliding scale based on income. It is basically supported by a $10.00 fee added to license renewal fees of the physicians, pharmacists, and dentists and a $7.00 fee added to the nurses (this may be increases in the future). Other funding: Small amount from Association, private donations, T-shirt sales and other fundraisers at Association convention.