are literally at arm's reach. in fact, people ages 65 and older, in any given year, are filling more than 30 different prescriptions. and one third of older adults are using five different medicines at the same time. the mission of the national council on patient information education, ncpie, is to stimulate and improve communication of information on safe and appropriate medicine use to the general public and health care professionals. "thank you for inviting the national council on patient information education, ncpie; that's how i'm going to refer to us today." one of our key programs right now is called the "teen influencer" program. the full title is "maximizing your role as a teen influencer: what you can do to prevent teen prescription drug abuse." that program enables adults in the community