Independent Pharmacist Provides A Solution for Epidemic of Drug Induced Nutrient Depletion's

Online, October 4, 2010 (Newswire.com) - Did you know that October is National Talk About Prescription Month? An independent pharmacist and marketing consultant for health care professionals is making sure that the problem of Drug Induced Nutrient Depletion's does not go unnoticed and it talked about. Both prescription and non-prescription medications have the ability to deplete critical vitamin's and nutrient's from the body, although patient's are seldom counseled upon this mainly due to the fact that it is not readily taught in medical and pharmacy schools. In addition, there has been no clear tool of communication to aid both practitioners and patients through this challenge.

Nutritional deficiencies are a major factor to the health and disease states in our society. There are four main contributors to nutritional deficiencies; Diet, Lifestyle, Age, and Prescription and Non-Prescription Drugs.

Pharmacist and Clinical Nutritionist, Robert B. Kress believes the Drug Induced Nutrient Depletion's could be one of the most over-looked and ignored realities that can be slowly crippling your health.

"Drug induced nutrient depletion's are probably a much bigger problem than we even realize. Where over the years there are thousands of scientific studies that highlight and verify the problems, if funding was readily available for more studies to be done on the plethora of medications on the market, I am sure we would be seeing an even greater issue at hand," says Robert Kress, pharmacist and clinical nutritionist of www.rxdepletions.com

"The Book The Nutritional Cost of Drug's, by James Lavalle RPh CCN and Ross Pelton RPh CCN, along with their other book, The Drug Induced Nutrient Depletion Handbook for practitioners, provides the bulk of scientific based research on this topic. As a practicing pharmacist I have found what was still lacking was an effective tool of communicating this topic to my clients. I mean, pulling out a book to show a client is just not practical when you are servicing hundreds of patients in a day, and I have found the same problem with my colleagues. The end result is that patients do not get adequately counseled and made aware of a major problem that could be opening the door to other negative issues of health", Kress adds.

To solve this problem, Robert Kress RPh CCN, created The Drug Induced Nutrient Depletion Awareness Program to help pharmacists and other health care practitioners educate their customers and patients in a quick, easy and effective way. The Drug Induced Nutrient Depletion Awareness System consists of 15 individual Power Pamphlets, grouped by drug category educating and highlighting consumers and health care practitioners of such depletions. He has also created a Nutritional Deficiency Tri-fold to educate consumers on other contributing factors to such challenges to their health, all materials customized for the providers practice. All which can be found at his website, www.rxdepletions.com.

And as an added benefit, this also provides a turn-key profit center for practitioners to add to their wellness sales.

"This system has many uses, it can be used as free standing brochures in the waiting area, as bag clippers attached to the prescription medications, marketing handouts to other providers and support groups as well as counseling materials working with patients.

For more information on this topic contact Robert B Kress at 269-830-4362, www.rxdepletions.com.