Pharmacy tech roles hardest to fill at 80% of pharmacies: report

At 80 percent of local pharmacies, pharmacy technicians are the most difficult position to fill, according to a January poll conducted by the National Community Pharmacists Association. 

Struggles to hire these technicians surpass similar issues to hiring pharmacists, front end staff and delivery drivers combined. Two-thirds of the 332 pharmacy owner and manager respondents said they are "having a difficult time filling open staff positions." 

Here are four other results from the poll, which asked about drug shortages: 

1. Ninety-seven percent said they currently had a shortage of some drugs. The same percentage have a shortage in Adderall.

2. More than nine in 10 said they are dealing with a shortage in children's pain and fever relief medicine.

3. Eighty-five percent said they are facing a shortage of diabetes medicine

4. Four in five said they are experiencing a shortage of amoxicillin

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