pharmacies you know the the in the old days sixty seven years ago there were three done medications and there would be different powders on a shelf in a pharmacist would get an order and it had seven different powders in it they a little mortar and pestle mixing together and and while you'd have they put in powder papers and little capsules and you'd have your medication we do sort of the same thing only on a high scale basis now more of a we have you know electric mixers and we and we have males and powder hoods and some some really good equipment and we do still take the same thing powders and we make things for animals and make special compounds for animals things that are not commercially available they're not commercially available because maybe they're not stable enough to to last shelf time so that they can be sold and resold you know some liquids we make we take some medications that are already out there and we make them into liquid so that and we flavor him for animals for children and we make special types of i drops that are far stronger so that people the powder stay away from our employees and we make capsules and paying creams and and all sorts of things so like you had mentioned you make medication for animals so the big pharmaceutical companies under that because it's not a big enough their their their the species and the animals they're treating and we really get no training for animals per se but there are some things that just aren't commercially available we do a lot of  word medicines for animals and that's a good point shared thyroid in animal thyroid or hypothyroidism and deficiencies of thyroid function in animals is actually very prevalent yes and it goes on diagnosing these dogs start developing other problems but it's really just a thyroid it's not functioning and so you're able then to by way you compound these these yep so they they call in a specific dose we do it in a liquid and we tuna flavor them or liver flavor them we do it in  that that meaning gel that the medications dissolved in this you know in a very absorbent type a gel and we put this through a what we call mil and remember the old days when a dead ringer washer yes we have something like that a grandmother had one of those wringer washers and some anti anxiety things for for you know when like we had a storm today and if there's lightning and thunder dogs we act yeah they go cause we give them we can give them things like am a trip going in that your gel and it help to settle down we give them we get can actually give a valley i'm supposed to tori for dogs that go nuts i mean really go crazy and they just hide and get scared so it really settles them down we give and we give value supposed to us for seizures to wow and so when dogs travel but they needed it and some dogs have great anxiety in the car or getting on airplanes so you're able to then apply this medication but those have to be scripted by the veterinarian i still have to be scripted by that we can't we don't we don't do anything without a  doctor or a vet's approval what's the what's the turnaround from the time that you walk in to your or the script is called in to the time you can pick up the medication i think we're probably we really work hard at it we have a very good staff we have a full time pharmacist that does nothing but call palming and she has three technicians that work with her so so if you get something to me monday through friday by three o'clock the we get the same day and that's a pretty unique in that it is yeah if  it's if it's after five o'clock on friday i don't have my people don't come back until monday morning but if there's an emergency one of my one of my one of my techs who is married to edge work by the way another one of our our high school graduates graduate and i his wife would actually come into the store and she's done it she comes in probably one out of every three weekends to make something for an animal that needs it right away  but two years ago now you moved to new location yes two years ago we moved from we were on the corner of jefferson and pike right on the corner that you turned down to go to the stadium and we just grew way out you know the building was too small we needed more room so we bought what was the oldest building in cannes but you'll does business in kanpur it was called the camper feed mill yes and we've adapted it's a twenty thousand square foot building but the pharmacy is still relatively small but when we have all they'll hire you and you need training so i ended up going to allegheny small college up and meet bill i wrestled for can a maccan got a rest on scholarship there of the division three not really a scholarship they gave you a and once i graduated from there i decided to go to pharmacy school at duquesne and needed hours so i showed up at mrs jeffrey store and she looked at me and she said well you know i did graduate your dad and and you know everything is you know the whole world revolves around relationships i would say that the most important thing in life is relationships was a nurse in cancer hospital but they were married and her husband passed away the same day i got my license so she asked me you know do you want to run the store for i said of course and i ran a store for about three years and you know i was still paying college debts off and she came to me and she said would you like to buy the store and i said i would but i got about thirty seven cents in my pocket and she said well no out financed the whole thing and you know i can give you the receivables as a you know so you can pay the debts and keep the business going and i thought that was wonderful so i bought the store for one hundred eighty seven thousand two hundred fifteen dollars i remember the number and for the next ten years i paid her paid her and goes here and so she ended up passing away in a will and i always break down a little bit she left me one hundred eighty seven thousand two hundred so the store always be called geoffrey's drugstore every gerry's or so if anybody's interested in pharmacy can it no one unfortunately gets first preference but if nobody can count no one claims the scholarship at pitt you apply at pitt for it then you're eligible to to get a significant amount of money with your scholarship for pharmacy you have to be in the pharmacy program that bit yeah it's really she was a wonderfully absolutely so in the pharmacy you do a lot of unique things and you have a big people come in for medications but you see the importance of supporting the body with nutrients yeah so you know the big chains in the in the grocery stores they they all everybody has the same merchandise tylenols and and the cold medicines cough medicines hair color products you know it was all always pharmacy stuff yeah yeah but but but we go toward a more specialty type of war in business and and natural products is is the way the world is moving and you know i sell medications but i tell everybody that there is always a natural alternative and that you should you know you need to do some simple things you know you need to get in shape eat right and take natural products and maybe you won't need that cholesterol medicine maybe you won't need that blood pressure medicine maybe when you lose thirty pounds and start walking two days a week nothing dramatic nobody's asking you to run a marathon but if you walk eat you know start eating a little bit of green i have a pharmacist who works for me that is a naturalist so he went to school he went to an additional year of school for for vitamins and nutrition he owns is owned by them and shopping waynesburg he's a minister and he's a registered farm scienti brian king is his name so if you have if you have questions he's available to store tuesday through friday he doesn't work mondays and i always tell people from one to five that way you'll catch him here where he works and ni work some mornings but he calls from one to five ask for brian king and if you have specific vitamin questions he will really help you i mean he he he you know i take a bottle this big every day i take like twenty vitamins and i don't even know  prescription bottle well but yeah it's and since i started taking them i feel a lot better i was always worried about memory he's got me on memory drugs now he's got me on you know energy drugs he's got  pitcher court to put a wheelchair and take it out oxygen you know where the walker king of western pennsylvania in the end of the and the portable commode king of west and we even have steeler walkers and steeler canes there and yeah  we you know so we cater to we cater to the public and it's a little bit different a lot of the big companies or medical clinic companies have no show room we have a big beautiful show room it's in the old co entire building in so it has a huge show room and you can see stair glide you can see lift chairs there are you know anything that you can even imagine have the electric wheelchair electric wheelchairs and everything everything you can imagine and  the others the other insurances p m c blue cross they take they take a lot of those you p m c is a spotty because they have their own provider now have you seen census ridiculous affordable health care act one in the place have you seen big changes in coverage just for medicine and so forth well in some ways i've seen some good things i mean because there are you know in pennsylvania we didn't have a coverage problem per se most people were covered they had people a lot of states that transients had a hard time getting that insurance and people that were sort of in the mid mid between in underneath you know in that mid level point had a hard time getting in so so their numbers were supposed to be a stronomical that we would get so much more i'm on a business because so many more people but in pennsylvania we really didn't see a huge jump in the in the insured not where we saw the huge jump unfortunately was that every program that insures more people there was no tax to support that but at the end of two years after the federal government stopped funding it now my insurance has gone has tripled my insurance has tripled my co pays and for all drop and yeah yeah yeahs and my benefits of that have gone down at least fifty percent of what they were so unfortunately the people that are a that we were insuring the people that we're paying to insure have better coverage than we do and we're paying the premium but you know that's somebody has to pay and you know insurance health insurance is talking about taking care of yourself like you are speaking about eating properly exercising taking nutrients it's not i wait to get sick and then i want you to fix me fix me that it is and i will say that that  c and blue cross the two prevalent insurers and in the area all have wonderful programs now where you know they reach out to you and you know and and encourage you to you know work out a little bit to end it doesn't take a lot i mean it doesn't take a lot they say a half hour's worth of exercise a day can can add years to your life so and pushing away from the table pushing yeah and even just eating smaller monsour you don't really need to eat huge quantities now that's true that's true  there's a big problem with medication and in drug addiction with the open opioids can you discuss that for us and what's going on there and what's being done to resolve it yeah and unfortunately pennsylvania has been earmarked as one of the worst areas in the about you know somebody having a tooth pulled in and getting one hundred twenty percocet or more pain medications and at the end of taking one of those and another one of those you could actually have an addiction problem because  in your body that makes you want to pop another one of those pills absolutely and the problem is that initially there is a good there's a feeling of your euphoria there's a good feeling but that goes away so quick then you get take more to get to that same of your then th goes away completely but you just take now you're got to the point where you need it and you're taking more and more and the catastrophic and then it becomes an affordable or not available the doctor quits writing and then you turn when and some of the drugs that are available on the street and the problem with those are you just don't know what you're getting right and that's where the problems really get bad so as a pharmacist somebody b prescription and you feel that is there a way of checking if this is an abuser well thank you we just got three months ago not even three two months ago we just got what they call prescription drug monitoring p d s system so now i can literally go on to a computer and i can look at your history and say that you bought every every control drug that you got in pennsylvania that's the problem it's only in pennsylvania then i know what you've taken and and if i see that you've got other stuff like you know immediately call a doctor i immediately counsel you because you everything we can to help there was a problem these people that were abusing the drugs were doctor shopping and they would go into one office and get a prescription go into another office with another complaint get another prescription and there was no way unless you unless they were costly coming to your pharmacy there was no way for you to know that right be any other way we would know  is is that if we build their insurance and the insurance rejected it the next guy because it's said to us got it someplace else and that but people can say they had no insurance and even if they did and we would do searches and it was reason for any pain at all no i mean up here you know so so that it happens pretty readily and then they get those pills and i sell them on the black market on the street yes yes for far more than they're buying and paying for them  so so it is it is a big problem i will say the only positive thing that's come out of this you know it is a true positive thing is that diction is truly is truly a disease it's a disease and prior to this addiction was always you were a drug addict you were a slimeball you were just you weren't a normal human being now addictions being looked at the way it should be it's a disease and it can be treated and it can be helped and and then the newest thing is is these you know i not you've heard about it it's in the locks and it's these are the kits that the the emergency medical practice in the police carry around this is another one it's not can spray and this is the third this is an injection these will actually save somebody's life that quits breathing from a from my hair when overdose for an opiate overdose where they're just laying there and not breathing and if we can if you can put this together and there's know again how many times you know how many times do you have that opportunity how many times you can be somebody with this kit near you and it has to be quick i mean it can't be not breathing for ten minutes it's obviously it has to be done quickly so but the big change is is that they're you know these kits are available you can actually get the if you know somebody that and you just have a feeling of his child or if it's somebody in your family and you're in cough where you can actually get these kits at a pharmacy there's a cost involved but without a doctor's prescription you can actually walk in and say i want one the washington county has a  making out to be i guess the good again the good news is that the federal government's getting involved the local governments getting the state governments getting involved are going to and the sad news is that all of this is happening but there's not enough treatment facilities for the people who want to get help we have luckily we have a gateway out in in beaver milk a predator friend of mine runs that program and it's a wonderful program so and then you have green pride in washington which is also wonderful we have two really really good programs in this area that can help people but you know hey it's it's it's an epidemic it's a true epidemic and and you know and people need to seek help and again it's not there's not that cloak hanging over you that you're some kind of bad person if you get it you know if for some reason you get addicted opioids now it's you should seek help and there's help for you some of it starts just from partying surgery right now to put people sleep now i don't know that's what he died from yeah so so you can unintentionally become addicted without even realizing it yeah absolutely absolutely because again you're in pain you have a you know you you blow your knee out you know you're in pain you're taking something you feel pretty good allows you to be normal and you take more because it makes you need to take more to make sure you stay in normal and then you know three end of this is to say that you know if you know somebody make sure that you get them to treat because there's help there there's help out there without even a cost yes today more so than ever before i want to thank you so much for being on health pets healthy owners always my pleasure thank you thank you so much for watching healthy pets healthy owners remember a healthy pet is a have a pet when they're healthy and happy so we will be we'll see you next time thanks so much everybody