Gives Seminar on Drug Abuse
University Daily Kansan
Thursday, April 29, 1971
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Pharmacv Dean Describes Role
(Editor's note: This story is one in a series about KU deans and administrators.)
By BOB NORDYKE Kansan Staff Writer
The School of Pharmacy at the University of Kansas can't be accused of hiding its head in the sands of academia.
Howard Mossberg, dean of the School of Pharmacy, is perhaps deeper into drugs than anyone on this campus.
for the man who has headed KU's School of Pharmacy for the past 20 years. He covers the street school of narcotics as well as the needs of the community.
The guiding philosophy of Mossberg's administration is to keep in touch with any aspect of pharmacy that affects people.
At the moment, keeping in touch means filling his schedule with interviews with each of his graduating seniors.
"Basically I ask one question, we have to see how our profession and in particular this school", to assess whether or not we handled their educational needs.
It is a question that invites change and the Mossberg bergsons' reaction to changing patterns, which are in the schools of Pharmacy the drugstores the read the news the growing world of drug abuse.
IN HIS SOME 20 years in pharmacy. Mossberg has addressed his work to the occupation. When he came to KU, Mossberg said, the deanship, as he perceived it, was an important part of the school to pharmacist of the
state and involve pharmacists in the activities of the school.
"There are some real problems to be solved," he said, "knowledge and technology charges ahead and the practicing pharmacist is supposed to keep up. Now we have a seminar series where we get a crack at 700 of the 1300 pharmacists working in Kansas.
"We give them a seminar at least once a year," then pausing, he adds "but what do you call?"
Another of his jobs has been to assess the needs of the state in terms of pharmacists and doctors filling of classrooms accordingly.
THE GOAL he has set is to have 80 first-year students to fill the state's need of approximately 40 to 50 graduates a year.
Mossberg said the need for pharmacists was likely to rise based on what was likely to happen in the area of national health care, if more people are insured against the cost of a prescription.
A possible trend in labor contracts signaled by a recent UAW contract that included prescriptions service, causes 75 percent of all prescriptions will soon be paid by a third party.
"I firmly believe we are going to have accelerated growth in the field of robotics in terms of manpower for this state, we (KU) will just about be able to do it."
LEAVING FUTURISTIC PREDICTIONS for present realities. Mossberg said that there had been a huge interest in interest in clinical pharmacy.
Adapting to the new trend, the school has hired a clinical
pharmacist at the KU Medical Center who teaches part-time at Lawrence.
"We have started a pilot, three years ago, with two second year," Mossberg said. "It is a prototype of a program intended to train our students in a new way."
The program, Mossberg said, had adopted an educational toolbox in the School of Education of a controlled practice environment to accompany the need for more students to have also made innovations in the master's degree program. In response to the need for more students to have a master's degree program in hospital pharmacy has been instituted with students doing physical and Medical Center and Topeka.
Massberg has not isolated his belief in the need for change to the School of Pharmacy. He is working with problems of drug abuse.
"For the past 18 months I've been up to my ear lobes in drug abuse," he said. "I suppose I have made any personal contribution to the state of Kansas, the school, the police and the community, people what a drug is all about."
For the dean whose dress shows an awareness of style and fashion, keeping in touch up to his need, he should be able to drug abuse he gives on the
average of more than once a week.
"The drug problem is so complex it is hard to describe," she said. "It's not easy, passing fat, more than the goldfish swallowing of the thirties. It is more than that because the drug is so addictive that could be detrimental to society."
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THE PROGRAM, which has taken him to many high schools and every college campus in the state, includes the history of drug abuse and a categorization of the abuse potential. Of the national population which has been reported repeatedly by the mass media, Mossberg said the problem was probably as great as the uprorm, although reporting of the incident has been consistently accurate.
HIS SERIES of presentations on the drug problem will be complemented this summer by a short course on drug abuse.
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As the leader of the School of Pharmacy here, Mossberg said he had tried to bring to the job a background "such that I understand both the practical and theoretical aspects as faced by 1500 practitioners in the state and the problems inherent in a school."
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He then taught and became an associate dean at Southwestern University in Oklahoma, where he worked as a pharmacist during the summers, before coming to college.
He said he took up pharmacy only at the insistence of a fellow doctor from Florida, where he finished with three degrees in pharmacy from Columbia University.
through his knowledge of pharmacy, his beginnings in the field were rather chancey.
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Jorgensen receives complaints from many directions. University-related tenant complaints have been reported through Viee-Chancellor William Ballour, chairman of the Off-campus Housing Committee.
His only assistant to enforce the housing code is Jerry Cochean, three year law student at Temple University. His assistants are full-time inspectors of newly constructed buildings with the housebuilding code.
Kor Jengsen is the Lawrence city building inspector. His office is in the new bank building at 1047 Massachusetts, a structure he personally inspected. His job involves understanding with many different people, and he appears well suited to his difficult task.
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vacant houses are occasionally demolished. Demolished houses that belonged to the poor are left vacant because the people cannot afford to move slowly.
Jorgensen he thought that one big sweep by two or three men could clean up the town so inspecting would be inspecting. However, there are now barely enough funds for him to keep one housing assistant. Tennessee would concentrate on streets and streets other in the streets
area east of the University. The existing Lawrence housing code would be sufficient, he said, if it could be enforced.
Jorgensen said that there was a lot of misunderstanding of responsibilities between students and landowners and that that occurred when a vicious circle of neglect and pressure developed.
Jorgensen inspects every new building for compliance with the April 1966 updated building code.
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