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PHARMACISTS ADDRESSING MISINFORMATION

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APhA is pleased to offer pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, and student pharmacists tools and resources to address the issue of health misinformation. Pharmacy professionals need to evaluate information appropriately and translate it in a way patients can understand.

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Pharmacists Combating Misinformation

Defining misinformation

Misinformation is false information that is created or spread without false intent.

Misinformation about medications and devices spreads quickly through social networks, group chats, podcasts, and social media and can show up as a question in the pharmacy within the same week. Patients are getting health information from so many directions at once—their doctor, family member, neighbor, a YouTube video, an AI chatbot—and the sheer volume is overwhelming.
What is disinformation?

Disinformation is false information that is spread with deliberate intent to deceive.

Unlike misinformation, disinformation is created or shared with the knowing intent to mislead. Both forms can cause serious harm to public health outcomes when patients act on inaccurate information.

Practice tools

Pain and Fever Management: A Conversation Guide for Pharmacists

This guide supports pharmacists with patient-centered conversations about pain and fever treatment and management, with practical questions, counseling pearls, referral considerations, and treatment information to guide individualized recommendations.

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Pharmacists Combating Misinformation

This podcast discusses the threat of misinformation on public health and how community pharmacists are uniquely positioned to tackle this threat.

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Advocacy in action

APhA actively takes misinformation advocacy beyond the pharmacy.

Satellite Media Tour

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This video highlights media outreach on June 23, 2026. Over 20 interviews were conducted with TV and radio stations across the country.

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Acknowledgments

The following individuals served as content developers and reviewers:

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Kaelen Dunican, PharmD
Assistant Dean of Interprofessional Education & Professor of Pharmacy Practice, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
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Theodore "Ted" Lyons II, PharmD
Clinical Director, ShotRx
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Katie Meyer, PharmD, BCPS, BCGP
Vice President, Education, American Pharmacists Association

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