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Wisconsin Pharmacy
Recovery Network
What is WPRN?
The Wisconsin Pharmacy Recovery
Network is a voluntary program intended to serve chemically impaired
pharmacists, students and technicians.
Who
does WPRN help?
As structured, the
Network is designed to provide confidential
assistance to the primary impaired pharmacist,
pharmacy student, pharmacy technician, and the
family or significant others affected by the impairment.
What can WPRN provide?
 Confidential
referrals to primary and regional contacts.
Intervention
services to assist the pharmacist and family in
facing the problem.
Support
of the impaired pharmacist’s treatment, after care
and rehabilitation to reentry into the profession.
Advocacy
for the pharmacist with employers and the Pharmacy
Examining Board.
Self-reporting
procedures.
Is
there a charge for services?
There is no fee for referral,
recovery assistance or rehabilitation support
services offered by WPRN.
When a referral is made for evaluation and
treatment, the cost of treatment services,
including drug screening, will be the
responsibility of the individual participant. Most
of these services are reimbursable
through health insurance plans.
Educational Services
To
employers and EAP programs.
Professional
Associations
Students
Educational
programs on addiction, intervention, aftercare,
and re-entry issues.
Why
is WPRN necessary?
Estimates place the
incidence of alcoholism and other drug dependency
in pharmacists at about 10-15% for alcohol and
about 3% for other drugs. If these figures reflect
the incidence of substance abuse in Wisconsin, we
may have as many as
500 to 600 impaired pharmacists in this state.
The
Wisconsin Pharmacy Recovery Network (WPRN) is a
network of volunteer recovering and non-recovering
pharmacists and their families organized to
provide early detection, intervention,
aftercare support and education to pharmacists
and their families in the area of drug and alcohol
dependency or physical and mental impairment.
Help is only a phone call or e-mail away.
If you would like
more information about the program, if you
personally have a problem, or you live or work
with a pharmacist who does, call the Network
Information Line at (608) 827-9200. All
inquiries will be referred to a primary or
regional contact within the network.
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