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Enumerate the three factors that Influence the Pharmacist's responsibilities in the
implementation of Integrative Medicine? 

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The three factors which influence pharmacist's responsibilities in implementing Integrative Medicine are the
breadth of medication use, pharmacists’ objectives, and stakeholders’ perspectives.

(1) Barriers to understanding CAM use include a lack of information about their use in organ impairment,
poor data about the true incidence of adverse drug reactions associated with CAM, and the wide variety of
locations where patients can purchase CAM.

(2) Pharmacists can start by understanding the scope of the problem and defining CAM. It's important to know
what patients tend to use in specific geographic areas. Pharmacists need to ask patients about CAM use. 
(3) Pharmacists need to acknowledge the many stakeholders in the CAM discussion. Pharmacists and patients are
obviously involved, but policymakers, regulators, professional organizations, academia, traditional physicians,
alternative practitioners, and the pharmaceutical/CAM industry are all involved as well.

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