The Coalition is made up of leading health, healthcare providers, and consumer organizations. The American Academy of Pediatrics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and U.S. Food and Drug Administration serve as advisors to the Coalition.
The goal of the Coalition is to educate consumers and patients about how to use medicines containing acetaminophen appropriately and to help change behaviors that could lead to an unintentional acetaminophen overdose. Through outreach to healthcare providers, patients, and consumers, the coalition works to ensure that acetaminophen is used only as directed or labeled.
The Coalition is the official sponsor of the Know Your Dose campaign.
 The private, not-for-profit Alliance for Aging Research is a national citizen advocacy organization working to improve the lives of Americans as they grow older by advancing biomedical and behavioral research in aging and health. The Alliance was founded in 1986 to promote and accelerate medical and scientific research into aging. |  Founded in 1985, the American Association of Nurse Practitioners® (AANP) is the largest, full-service national professional membership organization created for NPs of all specialties. As The Voice of the Nurse Practitioner®, AANP represents the interests of the approximately 155,000 NPs around the country, advocating for the active role of NPs as providers of high-quality, cost-effective health care. |
 AAPA is the only national professional association that represents all PAs across all medical and surgical specialties in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, the armed forces, and the federal services. AAPA provides comprehensive support and advocacy for physician assistants so that they may, in turn, provide patients with increased access to quality, cost-effective health care. |  The American Pharmacists Association (APhA) is the organization whose members are recognized in society as essential in all patient care settings for optimal medication use that improves health, wellness, and quality of life. Through information, education, and advocacy APhA empowers its members to improve medication use and advance patient care. APhA was the first-established national professional society of pharmacists, having been founded in 1852 as the American Pharmaceutical Association. It remains the largest association of pharmacists in the United States, boasting more than 62,000 practicing pharmacists, pharmaceutical scientists, student pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, and others interested in advancing the profession. |
 OTCsafety.org is a program from the CHPA Educational Foundation. The CHPA Educational Foundation is the nonprofit foundation of the Consumer Healthcare Products Association (CHPA), and is dedicated to providing education on the appropriate and safe use of over-the-counter (OTC) medicines and nutritional supplements. |  AWARXE is a consumer protection program established to raise public awareness about rogue Internet drug outlets, counterfeit medications, over-the-counter and prescription drug misuse, and proper medication disposal. AWARXE was inspired by the tragic death of 24-year-old Justin Pearson in 2007 from an accidental overdose of prescription drugs purchased from an illicit online pharmacy that supplied the drugs without a valid prescription. AWARXE is supported by the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy Foundation®. |
 The National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS) Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit charitable organization that serves as the education, research and charitable affiliate of NACDS. The NACDS Foundation seeks to improve the health and wellness of the people in America. It utilizes education, research, and charitable involvement to help people improve their health and quality of life through an understanding of medication therapy and the importance of taking medications appropriately. |  The National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPRA ®) represents the interests of America's community pharmacists, including the owners of more than 23,000 independent community pharmacies, pharmacy franchises, and chains. Together they represent a $93 billion health-care marketplace, have more than 315,000 employees including 62,400 pharmacists, and dispense over 41% of all retail prescriptions. To learn more go to www.ncpanet.org or read NCPA's blog, The Dose, at http://ncpanet.wordpress.com. |
 The National Consumers League is America’s oldest consumer organization, representing consumers and workers on marketplace and workplace issues since our founding in 1899. NCL provides government, businesses, and other organizations with the consumer’s perspective on concerns including child labor, privacy, food safety, and medication information. NCL is home to the LifeSmarts program, Child Labor Coalition, and NCL’s Fraud Center. |  The National Council on Patient Information and Education (NCPIE), formed in 1982, is a nonprofit coalition of diverse member organizations working to stimulate and improve communication of information on safe and appropriate medicine use to consumers and healthcare professionals. |
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American Academy of Pediatrics
The American Academy of Pediatrics is an organization of 60,000 primary care pediatricians, pediatric medical subspecialists and pediatric surgical specialists dedicated to the health, safety and well being of infants, children, adolescents and young adults. |
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
The FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) serves as an advisor to the coalition. CDER’s Office of Communications has an educational campaign and the Safe Use Initiative has a safety initiative intended to promote the safe use of medicines that contain acetaminophen. |
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
CDC’s Medication Safety Program provides scientific advice to the coalition. The Medication Safety Program leads CDC’s national adverse drug events (ADEs) surveillance activities, and the PROTECT Initiative, an innovative collaboration developing strategies to help prevent unintentional medication overdoses in children. |
- The Campaign
- The Acetaminophen Awareness Coalition
- Organizational Partners
- Corporate Sponsors
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