Plan B survey- please fill out to help with my paper!

[esduhovny]

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Hi everyone!

I'm a college student working on a research paper about this and I wanted to gather some opinions to write about in my paper.

If you are a pharmacist or if you are not and just give your opinion it would help me! Below are the questions! Feel free to write your responses here or to message me!

Thanks,
E


1. What are your thoughts on Plan B being made available without a prescription?


2. What are your thoughts on the FDA’s decision to allow 17 year olds to buy Plan B without a prescription as well?


3. If a 17-year-old female came to buy Plan B, what would you ask her before allowing her to purchase the Plan B?


4. How about for an 18-25 year old female?


5. How about for a 25-35 year old female?


6. How about for a female over age 35?


7. Would you sell Plan B to a male? Would it matter how old he was?- please explain



8. Have you sold Plan B to anyone in the last two years? Feel free to elaborate.

 

[prevacid]

Hi everyone!

I'm a college student working on a research paper about this and I wanted to gather some opinions to write about in my paper.

If you are a pharmacist or if you are not and just give your opinion it would help me! Below are the questions! Feel free to write your responses here or to message me!

Thanks,
E


1. What are your thoughts on Plan B being made available without a prescription?

im totally for it being available without rx....accidents happen or people are reckless, regardless thats one less kid running around coming from a broken family


2. What are your thoughts on the FDA’s decision to allow 17 year olds to buy Plan B without a prescription as well?

totally for it...the way i look at it, thats just one less kid on Access

3. If a 17-year-old female came to buy Plan B, what would you ask her before allowing her to purchase the Plan B?

just what the law requires me to, i check for id

4. How about for an 18-25 year old female?

same as 3


5. How about for a 25-35 year old female?

same as 3


6. How about for a female over age 35?

same as 3

7. Would you sell Plan B to a male? Would it matter how old he was?- please explain

as long as he is over 17 yes, the law says you must be 17 to purchase it, so i just make sure the person i sell it to is 17 or up, afterwards, what they do with it is none of my business

8. Have you sold Plan B to anyone in the last two years? Feel free to elaborate.

i sell numerous plan b each week....there are some saturdays ive sold as many as 6-8 on one day

hope it helps

 

[type b pharmD]

hope it helps

I'm not a pharmacist yet, but if i worked in retail, i would answer your questions exactly as prevacid answered them.

 

[Moxxie]

Hi everyone!

I'm a college student working on a research paper about this and I wanted to gather some opinions to write about in my paper.

If you are a pharmacist or if you are not and just give your opinion it would help me! Below are the questions! Feel free to write your responses here or to message me!

Thanks,
E


1. What are your thoughts on Plan B being made available without a prescription?
I think it should be available to ANYONE without a prescription, as long as counseling accompanies dispensing.

2. What are your thoughts on the FDA's decision to allow 17 year olds to buy Plan B without a prescription as well?
Good for them! Too bad this didn't happen sooner, but such are politics.

3. If a 17-year-old female came to buy Plan B, what would you ask her before allowing her to purchase the Plan B?
"How long has it been since you had unprotected sex?" "Have you ever used Plan B before?" "Do you understand how to use it and how it works?" If this is a repeat customer (as in, multiple plan B's in a couple of months), I'd ask, "Do you use any other method of birth control? Plan B is just a high dose form of the pill, but the pill is much cheaper."

4. How about for an 18-25 year old female?
Same questions

5. How about for a 25-35 year old female?
Same questions

6. How about for a female over age 35?
Same questions

7. Would you sell Plan B to a male? Would it matter how old he was?- please explain
Yes, and I have. The guys tend to be much more anxious than the girls.


8. Have you sold Plan B to anyone in the last two years? Feel free to elaborate.
Plenty of times. I always make sure to counsel whoever it is - to make sure they know how to take it, the possible side effects (nausea, malaise, etc.), that Plan B is not effective if the patient is already pregnant, and that it is not effective if more than 72 hours have elapsed since unprotected sex. Everyone gets treated the same by me, whether they are 18 or 48.

Here you go!

 

[FarscapeGirl]

Hi everyone!

I'm a college student working on a research paper about this and I wanted to gather some opinions to write about in my paper.

If you are a pharmacist or if you are not and just give your opinion it would help me! Below are the questions! Feel free to write your responses here or to message me!

Thanks,
E


1. What are your thoughts on Plan B being made available without a prescription?


2. What are your thoughts on the FDA’s decision to allow 17 year olds to buy Plan B without a prescription as well?


3. If a 17-year-old female came to buy Plan B, what would you ask her before allowing her to purchase the Plan B?


4. How about for an 18-25 year old female?


5. How about for a 25-35 year old female?


6. How about for a female over age 35?


7. Would you sell Plan B to a male? Would it matter how old he was?- please explain



8. Have you sold Plan B to anyone in the last two years? Feel free to elaborate.

Hmm... you should be reading the Catholic Pharmacist thread on the pre-pharm page.

1) I think it's a great idea. It's safe, and this will highly increase its effectiveness, leading to less unwanted pregnancies and/or abortions.

2) No problem with it. It's an incredibly safe medication, and there's no scientific or medical reason why the FDA made the restriction that only adults could get it w/out a prescription. It was purely political.

3) Same as Moxxie. I'm quoting, but just b/c I haven't had the pharmacist training yet.

4) Same as above.

5) Same as above.

6) Same as above.

7) I'd certainly sell it to a male, after similar counseling to what I'd say with the women.

8) Not yet.

 

[Allure]

1. What are your thoughts on Plan B being made available without a prescription?
I'd rather they have the pills available to them than to have them try other methods or worse, carrying a child without being able to provide for it just because they didn't have any other options


2. What are your thoughts on the FDA’s decision to allow 17 year olds to buy Plan B without a prescription as well?
What difference does it make between a 17 and a 18?? It's just really a number that was set before. If you're 14, you can still get it by asking someone else. So I really don't see the difference here.


3. If a 17-year-old female came to buy Plan B, what would you ask her before allowing her to purchase the Plan B?
I'd ask her what she knows about it and then counsel her. One thing I'd want to let her know is that this is not a substitution for birth control and it is not safe to have unprotected sex if indeed it was unprotected sex and not just a condom broke.


4. How about for an 18-25 year old female?
Same as 3


5. How about for a 25-35 year old female?
Same as 3

6. How about for a female over age 35?
Same as 3

7. Would you sell Plan B to a male? Would it matter how old he was?- please explain
I would since the law doesn't restrict who I can sell it to. Again, it doesn't matter to me what his age is because he is probably legal and not buying it for himself. Of course I'd tell him about the unprotected sex and the risks if he was a young male and needed guidance.



8. Have you sold Plan B to anyone in the last two years? Feel free to elaborate.
Not yet

 

[Pharmavixen]

Hi everyone!


1. What are your thoughts on Plan B being made available without a prescription?

Years before it was made OTC, I'd get women coming into the store asking to get the "morning after" pill. So I'd have to send them to the walk-in clinic next door, and after they spend a couple of hours sitting in a crowded waiting room with sick people, they come back to me with the rx.

So my answer is it should have been OTC years ago. Sending a healthy young person to a doc who will basically rubber-stamp the rx is a waste of the doc's time.

2. What are your thoughts on the FDA's decision to allow 17 year olds to buy Plan B without a prescription as well?

Why should there be an age restriction? There isn't where I practice, and it's not like we have twelve-year-olds queueing up to buy it.

3. If a 17-year-old female came to buy Plan B, what would you ask her before allowing her to purchase the Plan B?

Why would I have a special set of questions for different age groups? I'd ask her the same thing I ask everybody: how long has it been?

4. How about for an 18-25 year old female?
5. How about for a 25-35 year old female?

See #3

6. How about for a female over age 35?

Not sure I've ever sold it to a woman over 30; it seems to be a young woman's thing. If the pt comes back multiple times, I will suggest that maybe she should get a script for regular daily pills. But for a woman over 35, I'd tell her about the health concerns.

7. Would you sell Plan B to a male? Would it matter how old he was?- please explain

That's never happened. I would, though it would make me uneasy because I feel it's the woman's choice, and I'd be concerned that there's coercion going on.

8. Have you sold Plan B to anyone in the last two years? Feel free to elaborate.

Yes; nothing special to say about it.

Here in Canada, we were asked to fill out a form with every Plan B sale that asked the pt's name and sexual hx. I refused to do it, feeling this was a barrier to access and an unwarranted invasion of privacy for the sake of an OTC sale. Eventually, we came under criticism from drs, and this rule was repealed.

Basically, you get people expressing "concerns" about Plan B, claiming to speak for the health of women. But who they're really speaking for is the hypocritical anti-sex religious right. [/rant]

 

[Kirbypuff]

Hi everyone!

I'm a college student working on a research paper about this and I wanted to gather some opinions to write about in my paper.

If you are a pharmacist or if you are not and just give your opinion it would help me! Below are the questions! Feel free to write your responses here or to message me!

Thanks,
E


1. What are your thoughts on Plan B being made available without a prescription?
It's good.


2. What are your thoughts on the FDA’s decision to allow 17 year olds to buy Plan B without a prescription as well?
I think it's good, but I think counseling ought to be required on what the pill actually does to your body.... so that they don't use it as a regular method of contraception.


3. If a 17-year-old female came to buy Plan B, what would you ask her before allowing her to purchase the Plan B?
May I see your ID please?

4. How about for an 18-25 year old female?
May I see your ID please?

5. How about for a 25-35 year old female?
May I see your ID please?

6. How about for a female over age 35?
Nothing.

7. Would you sell Plan B to a male? Would it matter how old he was?- please explain
If the law allows it, yes.



8. Have you sold Plan B to anyone in the last two years? Feel free to elaborate.

Absolutely. I am certain that Plan B does not prevent a zygote from forming, but it does prevent a zygote from implanting onto the uterine lining because Plan B increases the chances of ectopic pregnancies. I do not consider a zygote to be a human being without implanting onto the uterine lining. Therefore, killing zygotes does not equate to me as abortion, so I have no moral issues with the use of Plan B. However, if someone would consider a zygote to be a super baby human, then I would respect their belief that the use of Plan B is abortion to them. This is why I would want 17 year olds to be counseled so they know their stance on what a human being is and what they feel about abortion so they know what Plan B does. And I would respect any pharmacist who believes that zygotes are super baby humans and who is also opposed to abortion should have the right to not dispense Plan B. This is why I am a proponent of Plan B without a prescription, because if it's easier for someone to purchase Plan B, then the pharmacist who has moral issues against Plan B can choose not to dispense it without preventing the patient from acquiring it.

 

[NormalSaline]

You should make a surveymonkey page, and I will do it. Itd be easier for you too.

 

[esduhovny]

Thanks for all the replies!

I'm not sure how to make the surveymonkey version.

E