Call to Action
Sign our petition today:
Every signature adds to the collective voice demanding change. By signing, you join a growing community standing up for fair access to essential alternative medicine options. Each signature strengthens our message to lawmakers and regulators, showing widespread support and increasing pressure to halt unjust regulations. Your signature is a crucial step in protecting the health and rights of millions.
Join us at the next CA Board of Pharmacy board meeting to voice your opposition:
When: Thursday, September 12, 2024
Where: via Webex or in Sacramento
What: Attending and giving public comment
How: Links, prompts, and downloads below!
Exercising your First Amendment right by sharing your opposition at this meeting will demonstrate to the Board of Pharmacy how their choices are impacting members of the public. You don't need to be a public speaker – just speak from the heart! You will have at least two minutes to speak.
Download our list of prompts for inspiration.
Meeting link: Stay tuned! It's not available quite yet.
Download a PDF of the proposed regulations.
Visit the Board of Pharmacy Full Board Meetings Page for more documents pertaining to this meeting!
Contact your representatives:
Writing to Governor Newsom and your state representatives helps give credibility to our cause. The more they hear from the public regarding a particular issue, the more likely they are to take action.
To find your representatives, visit: https://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov/
Here is an email template you can copy and paste:
I am writing to express my strong opposition to the California Board of Pharmacy (BOP) proposed regulations on pharmacy compounding that would restrict access to legal Category 1 sterile compounds, including essential treatments such as glutathione, NAD+, and methylcobalamin (vit B12). If enacted, these regulations would severely limit, and in many cases end, access to vital alternative medicines for Californians, particularly those with chronic illnesses, as well as firefighters who depend on glutathione for detoxification after toxic exposure.
The Alliance for Pharmacy Compounding identified 57 instances where the proposed regulations exceed federal and Pharmacopeia standards without scientific or legal justification. This overreach poses a significant threat to the health and well-being of vulnerable populations. The lack of transparency and clarity in these regulations is also concerning. The BOP’s responses to public comments have been largely generic, failing to address specific concerns, undermining genuine public participation.
Respected medical institutions have publicly opposed the regulations, arguing that they are arbitrary and do not align with federal law or scientific evidence. The regulations would disproportionately harm compounding pharmacies, patients, and firefighters who rely on these treatments, which remain available in all 49 other states.
It appears the BOP is exploiting Assembly Bill 973, signed by Gov. Newsom in 2019 to align pharmacy regulations with federal standards. The provision allowing the Board to exceed federal standards should not justify 57 deviations, as this was not the Legislature’s intent.
As this matter may soon be voted on at the Sept 12 BOP board meeting, I urge you to take action to ensure these harmful regulations do not go into effect. The health and lives of countless Californians depend on protecting access to these essential treatments.
Thank you for your attention to this critical issue.
Sending a letter the old-fashioned way? Click here to download our 1-page letter template.
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