Specialty Compounding involves a trained pharmacist altering the medicine they are dispensing with the approval of an attending physician. Compounding allows a pharmacist to remove certain ingredients, combine multiple medications into a single dose, or alter the delivery method of a medication.

The concept of Specialty Compounding goes back to the pharmacist’s original role, when they actually created medicines, instead of just dispensing prepackaged products. According to the Professional Compounding Centers of America, 60% of all drugs were compounded by pharmacists as recently as the 1940s in North America. Currently, there are more than 5,000 Specialty Compounding Pharmacists in North America, Australia and Europe.

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