The most commonly used tobacco product among middle and high school students in the U.S. in 2024 was e-cigarettes, also known as vapes, according to the CDC. In order to prevent substance abuse and vaping among teens, creating educational resources … Read more

As fentanyl-related overdose deaths are on the rise in North Carolina and across the country, a new survey by UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy-affiliated and community-based researchers found North Carolina pharmacists are willing to sell fentanyl test strips (FTS) to … Read more

UNC-Chapel Hill has been nationally recognized for its COVID-19 research efforts, and that includes faculty from various departments of the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. Co-PIs Delesha Carpenter, Ph.D., M.S.P.H., associate professor in the Division of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy, … Read more

    The UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy is thrilled to announce that Delesha Carpenter, Ph.D., M.S.P.H.,  will become the new Vice Chair for the Asheville campus for the Division of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy (DPOP) effective December 1, 2019. … Read more

Despite a wealth of suicide prevention training available to health care professionals, only the state of Washington requires pharmacists to complete suicide prevention training, according to a study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Sixteen suicide prevention … Read more

Nearly one-third of North Carolina community pharmacists have never offered patients the opioid reversal agent naloxone, and approximately 20 percent have never dispensed it according to a survey conducted by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. … Read more

The North Carolina Area Health Education Centers awarded an Innovation Grant to Delesha Carpenter, Ph.D., M.S.P.H., to create an online module that prepares medical residents to communicate with pediatric patients and their parents about opioids. The grant of more than … Read more

Pharmacists who are allowed to dispense naloxone, an opioid reversal agent, without a prescription are often uncomfortable talking to patients about the drug, and the profession’s continuing education programs aren’t helping, according to a new study from the University of … Read more

UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy faculty members Amanda Corbett, Pharm.D., and Delesha Carpenter, Ph.D., M.S.P.H., were among the winners of this year’s Chancellor’s Faculty Entrepreneurship Workshop. The two-and-a-half day workshop, called “The Entrepreneurial Mindset – Maximizing Faculty Impact,” split participating … Read more

Many school nurses in North Carolina and South Carolina are contending with prescription opioids at school but very few have access to naloxone, which can reverse an opioid overdose, according to a new study from the University of North Carolina … Read more