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Walgreens also said it will work with Mental Health America and other experts in tofield to improve training and education of its more than 27000 pharmacists and more than 1100 nurse practitioners and physician assistants.

Walgreens will offer access to 1000 therapists and psychiatrists via Breakthrough,a MDLive telemedicine company

, in order to improve mental health treatment. Walgreens 18 months ago began a relationship with MDLive, a telemedicine company, to provide customers with around toclock access to physicians. About one in five Americans suffer mental health conditions, which is greater than medical conditions like diabetes and heart disease.

With that said, Walgreens sees its army of pharmacists and nurse practitioners having an impact, patient adherence to prescriptions is worse for mental health conditions than physical illnesses.

Pedestrians walk by a Walgreens store April 5, 2016 in San Francisco.

Todrugstore giant is expanding mental health services and access to ‘communitybased’ behavioral health programs. Anyway, if at all, less than 50percent of Americans who are prescribed medications to treat mental health conditions take them as directed, Walgreens said. We are providing even more training around medication issues, Leider said, pharmacies have always been oriented around supporting patients who are on medications for mental health conditions.

walgreens thinks it can make a difference given six million Americans shop at todrugstore chain’s stores each day and some two million people come to our digital properties like tocompany’s web site and mobile app, Leider said. Mental Health America and Walgreens set a goal to screen three million people by toend of 2017

to improve care and patient awareness through a ‘multifaceted’ campaign.