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Appearances can be deceiving. That is especially true for Cantrell Drug.When you enter the door, Cantrell Drug looks like any other pharmacy.

You see pharmacists working behind the counter and the usual selection of sundries and dry goods, but behind the counter, that’s when it gets interesting.
When you walk down the hall and turn the corner, it becomes what looks to be a movie set, but is actually a clean room where the drugs are compounded.

“You’re not the first person to notice that,” Dell McCarley, the pharmacist who owns and operates Cantrell Drug, said with a laugh. “But that’s what we do, compound drugs and that’s where we do it.”

And Cantrell Drug compounds a lot of medication as they provide services to more than 200 clinics and hospitals, along with individual patients.

They offer compounds partly because some patients have very sophisticated needs and partly because the pharmaceutical companies no longer make some medications that are still prescribed.

“Big pharm has really gotten into the big blockbuster drugs,” McCarley said. “So they no longer make some of the smaller lines, but doctors are still prescribing them, so to fill that need a compounding pharmacy can step in.”

Cantrell Drug is the only Arkansas pharmacy to be accredited by the Pharmacy Compounding Accreditation Board and is the eighth such accreditation in the country.

McCarley also said that Cantrell Drug has had plans drawn up for a major expansion with a new facility in the North Shore business development in North Little Rock.



August 2007

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