What is the Problem?
Prescription (Rx) medicine abuse is the use of a prescription medication to create an altered state, to get high, or for any reasons other than those intended by the prescriber.
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Healthcare
Professionals
Our Members
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About Us
Who We Are
The Wyoming Rx Abuse Stakeholders (RAS) advocates for the appropriate use of prescription medication by increasing awareness, providing education, and impacting policy amongst the public, health care professionals, and law enforcement to prevent the misuse, abuse, and diversion of
prescription medications in Wyoming.
The RAS was founded in 2008 by then U.S. Attorney Kelly Rankin. At that time, he identified the need for key stakeholders in the state to come together to address a growing problem: Prescription drug misuse and abuse, which was resulting in an increasing number of deaths. Thanks to Kelly's foresight and leadership, with long-time assistance from RAS Secretary Barbara Warburton, the RAS is now in its 11th year of carrying out its critical mission for the state of Wyoming.
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Our Members
Cheyenne Regional Medical Center
https://www.cheyenneregional.org/
307-634-2273
Division of Criminal Investigation
307-777-7181
GFWC Women's Civic League of Cheyenne
https://www.womenscivicleaguecheyenne.org/
Recover Wyoming
307-421-7261
United States Attorney for the District of Wyoming
https://www.justice.gov/usao-wy
307-772-2124
University of Wyoming School of Pharmacy
https://www.uwyo.edu/pharmacy/
307-766-6120
Wyoming Board of Medicine
307-778-7053
Wyoming Board of Nursing
307-777-7601
Wyoming Board of Pharmacy
https://pharmacyboard.wyo.gov/
307-634-9636
Wyoming Drug Utilization Review
307-766-6750
Wyoming Department of Health - Medicaid Pharmacy Services
https://health.wyo.gov/healthcarefin/medicaid/pharmacy-services/
307-777-7531
Wyoming Department of Health - Medication Donation Program
https://health.wyo.gov/healthcarefin/medicationdonation/
307-635-1297
Toll Free: 855-257-5041
Wyoming Department of Health - Mental Health and Substance Use Treatment Services
https://health.wyo.gov/behavioralhealth/mhsa/
307-777-6494
Toll Free: 800-535-4006
Wyoming Department of Health - Public Health Division
https://health.wyo.gov/publichealth/
307-777-6004
Our Board
Chair: Angela Vaugh, DHSc, MPH
Advisors: Aimee Lewis, PharmD, MBA
Antoinette Brown, RPh
Sandra Deaver, CPhT