Q&A: A Pharmacist’s First-Hand View of Opioid Crisis in West Virginia

Throughout his time as an educator and provider in the pharmacy space, Mark Garofoli, PharmD, BCGP, CPE, CTTS, clinical associate professor at the West Virginia University School of Pharmacy, has seen both the detrimental impacts of the opioid epidemic as well as the inspiring efforts his fellow pharmacists have contributed toward in order to improve the crisis.

“One of the most horrific opioid crisis scenes that I’ll never get out of my head was the view in the parking lot of our state capital’s morgue around 2017, when extra-refrigerated containers were placed to accommodate the extra bodies from lives lost to drug overdoses,” he told…