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PRN director reports steady referrals, training and enrollment counts to Texas State Board of Pharmacy
Summary
Raquel Leal, PRN director, told the Texas State Board of Pharmacy that referrals for potentially impaired pharmacy professionals remained steady and that program compliance is acceptable; PRN detailed recent outreach, training and enrollment counts and submitted quarterly numbers to LBB/TSVP.
Raquel Leal, director of the Peer Recovery Network (PRN), reported to the Texas State Board of Pharmacy the second-quarter activity for the current fiscal year, saying PRN has received a steady number of referrals for potentially impaired pharmacy professionals and that compliance among current participants is acceptable.
Leal said "all concerns regarding public safety have been reported to TSVP," using the acronym as it appears in the transcript. She outlined PRN’s recent training and outreach: a virtual fall seminar on Sept. 26 featuring speaker Christian Mitchell on mindfulness and relapse-avoidance strategies; an in-person biannual advisory board meeting on Sept. 27 at the Texas Pharmacy Association office in Austin; PRN participation as an exhibitor and attendee at the Texas Substance Use Symposium in El Paso; and a Nov. 18 presentation to pharmacy students at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Pharmacy in Dallas.
The report included submitted quarterly reporting figures. Leal said LBB numbers were submitted to TSVP on Dec. 10 (the transcript uses the acronym “LBB” without expansion) and provided enrollment counts for the reporting period: 0 volunteer pharmacy students, 1 board-ordered pharmacy student, 14 volunteer pharmacists and 34 board-ordered pharmacists. She also directed board members to the expenditure report attached to PRN’s quarterly materials.
Board members asked if there were questions; none were raised. Chair and staff announced an open board liaison position to PRN, previously held by Bradley Miller, and asked interested board members to notify the chair by April 10; a new liaison is expected to be named at the May board meeting. The board then moved on to other agenda items and adjourned after a motion from Ian, seconded by Randy.
The transcript does not specify the meeting date or the full forms of the acronyms ‘TSVP’ and ‘LBB’; those acronyms are reported here exactly as spoken. The PRN report focused on program outreach, training and enrollment metrics; no board action on PRN policy or funding was recorded during this item.
