Locating pharmaceuticals in short supply can be a huge drain on your pharmacy or facility's staff time.
We have developed this website to keep the healthcare community abreast of current drug shortages in the U.S. using information
provided to us from the FDA, ASHP and our own local wholesale vendors.
Managing drug inventories has become particularly complex for healthcare facilities because of the
large number of monotherapies and monoproducts available. Drug shortages can delay and compromise patient care and increase
total cost, including those of choosing alternative therapies, delivery devices, and staff training. At
DrugShorts.com,
we
hope to keep you aware of current problem medications, the reasons, and expected resolution dates, and hopefully, provide
you with a limited supply of some of these medications to hold you until your primary vendor is able to replenish their stock.
We realize that this will not always be possible. For instance, your wholesaler may be out of or allocating a particular
drug, so you check with us. Sure enough, the drug is on the list of shorts on our site, so you contact us and we may
have some that we can sell to you. You will need to set up an account to do so. However, this very same drug may be gone
and unavailable by the time you finish reading this. You will want to contact us as soon as you possibly can to check
availability.
The "just-in-time" approach to procurement and inventory management among manufacturers, distributors, &
end users has led to the reduced ability of the supply chain to provide adequate drug product availability during disruptions.
Many end-user health care organizations have reduced inventories to the point that they depend on daily replenishment. Inventories
no longer provide an adequate buffer, and a temporary backorder quickly becomes a critical drug shortage for the end-user.
We hope to help you in this situation, so that you can get back to your job of providing healthcare to your patients.
All products shipped from our wholesale inventory will be sent with pedigree paperwork back to the manufacturer
or Authorized Distributor. We are a licensed wholesaler. We are a small independent pharmacist owned business.
We love to help whenever we can, so if you have a special need or a medication you cannot find, please leave us a message
or contact us by e-mail and we will do our best to obtain whatever we can for you.
