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As pharmacists become increasingly engaged in direct patient care, pharmacy technicians are assuming new responsibilities to support that involvement while promoting medication safety. Both traditional (dispensing) and advanced technician roles (including immunization, medication reconciliation, and patient history collection) require a strong foundation knowledge of drug actions, doses, routes of administration, side effects, and interactions. As our population ages and our healthcare system changes, more demands are being asked of the pharmacy technician. Once limited to “lick-stick-pour” duties, today’s pharmacy technicians are becoming part of the modern healthcare team. In most states, pharmacy practice acts limit certain roles and responsibilities to technicians who have demonstrated their knowledge of pharmacy; some even require specific training or examinations for them. To prepare for a future that will demand more from them, pharmacy technicians will need an understanding of the medications they are handling—their actions, doses, routes of administration, and interactions. Pharmacology is the study that includes the medication knowledge technicians need to function in modern pharmacy. Pharmacists learn pharmacology in the context of patient care from textbooks and articles authored by healthcare professionals with specific expertise in the areas in which they are writing. Since these materials are based on a background in physical and life sciences broader than currently required of technicians, as well as explore clinical decision-making on a level usually reserved for physicians and pharmacists, they are not appropriate for technician students. That should not mean, however, that pharmacy technician education should be limited to paraphrased editions from less authoritative sources. This text has been written by professionals who have specialized in the types of treatment they are covering (in some cases, the same respected authors who have contributed to prominent pharmacy references). The material contained here has been written specifically for pharmacy technicians, with their backgrounds and duties as guides for both breadth and depth, and with full respect for its importance to them, their careers, and the patients they serve.