WHEREAS, pharmacy is one of the oldest professions concerned with the health and well-being of all people; and

        WHEREAS, there are more than 195,000 pharmacists practicing in the United States today, providing services to assure the rational and safe use of all medications; and

        WHEREAS, the use of medication, as a cost-effective alternative to more expensive medical procedures, is becoming a major force in moderating overall health care costs; and

        WHEREAS, today’s powerful medications require greater attention to the manner in which they are used by different patient population groups – both clinically and demographically; and

        WHEREAS, it is important that all users of prescription and nonprescription medications, and their caregivers, be knowledgeable about and share responsibility for their own drug therapy; and

        WHEREAS, the American Pharmacists Association and the Idaho State University College of Pharmacy’s Chapter of Academy of Student Pharmacists have declared October as American Pharmacists Month with the theme Know Your Medicines — Know Your Pharmacist;

        NOW, THEREFORE, I, C.L. “BUTCH” OTTER, Governor of the State of Idaho, do hereby proclaim October, 2007, to be

American Pharmacists Month

in Idaho.

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the Great Seal of the State of Idaho at Boise, Idaho, on this 2nd day of October in the year of our Lord two-thousand and seven and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred thirty-second and of the Statehood of Idaho the one hundred eighteenth.

BEN YSURSA
SECRETARY OF STATE