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FIRST RESPONDERS Seesholtz, Rite Aid regional vice president for Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi.” Some Rite Aid associates also made a more personal contribution; store cashiers and pharmacists traveled from Tennessee and unaffected areas of Louisiana and Alabama to help at stores in locations hit by Gustav and to assist in reopening additional stores. Walgreens reopened its Galveston store a week after Hurricane Ike hit, for more information about the reopening of the store, visit www.drugtopics.com to view the Oct. 13 edition of Latebreakers. Primary caregiver Just seeing Craig Steinberg, PharmD, on the street wouldn’t lead someone to guess that in his free time he saves lives with emergency medications. Steinberg is from San Diego and, like Joffee, a member of a DMAT team, assisted with Hurricane Ike relief efforts. He began by ﬂying to Atlanta, where for two days he waited for deployment orders from the Department of Health and Human Services. When they came, he was on his way to Baton Rouge. After passing a night in a tent, he went on to Houma, La., where a hospital already had been “ravaged” by Hurricane Gustav. Steinberg was responsible for dispensing medications from a refrigerated 30-foot truck. “Basically I set up a miniature pharmacy in there,” he said. Shortly after arriving to help the hospital staff, however, Steinberg’s DMAT team was evacuated because Hurricane Ike was headed toward the area. He was then sent to New Orleans, where he spent two nights. The traveling didn’t end there; next, the team was moved to Lake Charles on the border of Texas and Louisiana. As a volunteer, Steinberg is not required to accept a mission with his team. He’s always given the option to refuse. He rarely does. “You really can meet a lot of needs for the patients that are there. The people who are ﬂooded have no medications of any kind. People need their routine medications and some emergency medications, or else they could get sick,” he said. “This is my chance to help save a life.” The ability to save lives during a medical disaster gives Steinberg a completely different feeling from the satisfactions of his everyday job as a PharmD. “It’s pretty intense,” he said. “It gets you out of your normal life.” N OV. 10, 2008 MAX DOLBERG DRUG TOPICS 27

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