This is one of the most dangerous things that are allowed and endorsed by the Virginia State Board of Pharmacy.

It has patiienrs transfereing prescriptions that they really d not need just to get a gift certificate and encourages patients to poly- pharmacy.  Many of these prescriptions are not run on insurance because they are cheaper on the  store plan so therefore no record of what the patient is taken is available to the pharmacy.

The duty of the Board is to protect the welfare and safety of the consumer. I beleive that the NABP does not endorse coupons .

Coupons and gift cards also can not be used for prescriptions only on other store goods so no real bendfit that out weighs the danger.

Coupons have no place in our profession and should have been addressed long ago.