Check the person. Check the medicine.

When weighing injection care in Goodyear, begin with the name and role of the person assessing you. Then check the pharmacy and the claims about the medicine.

Check the licence that fits their role

Ask the person assessing you to give their full name and tell you what type of licence they hold. A licence board is the state office for that type of care. Use the matching board below.

Arizona board tools · As of October 3, 2026.

For a medical doctor

MD means medical doctor.

The Arizona Medical Board has a doctor search with licence details and board orders, meaning its formal decisions.

Open the Arizona MD search

Checking a doctor whose title is DO

A doctor may have DO after their name instead of MD. Arizona checks DO licences through a separate board.

Use that board's doctor search for a DO licence.

Open Arizona's DO search page

For a nurse who assesses patients

A nurse with an added care qualification is called a nurse practitioner. This person can assess patients and make care decisions.

Check both records: the nurse's licence and advanced-practice certificate. This certificate shows the added qualification for that care role.

Prescribing also requires permission from Arizona's Nursing Board and must fit the nurse's training.

Open the Nursing Board's checks

For someone with PA after their name

PA stands for physician assistant, a health professional with a separate Arizona licence board.

The Arizona PA board offers a search to confirm the licence.

Open the PA Board's checks

As of October 6, 2026, Arizona law sets limits on the information a licence board posts online.

An empty online history does not prove there were no complaints, penalties or other final board decisions. Additional public records can be requested.

Ask the board for public records about that person's licence history, including final decisions. Ask which records the law allows it to release.

Check the pharmacy as well

Know which pharmacy is involved

Arizona pharmacy permits · As of October 3, 2026.

A pharmacy outside Arizona must have an Arizona permit to send medicine here. Its home state must also allow it to operate.

A pharmacy's permit and a pharmacist's personal licence are separate checks.

Get the pharmacy's exact name from the care service. Use the state pharmacy links from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) below. Ask the Arizona Pharmacy Board to check the pharmacy's permit.

Start with the FDA's state pharmacy links

Match the source to the question

What does an approval claim prove?

FDA approval guidance · As of September 26, 2026.

A business being registered with the FDA does not mean its medicine has FDA approval.

Read the FDA's explanation of approval

Why would a medicine be mixed?

FDA guidance on mixed medicines · As of September 26, 2026.

A specially mixed medicine is called a compounded medicine. It may meet a need that an FDA-approved medicine cannot meet. The mix itself has no FDA approval.

Read the FDA's compounding questions

Claims that deserve a pause

Prescription and advertising checks · As of September 26, 2026.

Giving out a prescription medicine without a valid prescription is against federal law.

Calling a specially mixed medicine FDA-approved is a false claim.

Pause if a seller offers a prescription medicine without a prescription. Also pause if it calls a specially mixed medicine FDA-approved. Ask the seller to explain before deciding.

Read the FDA's online pharmacy checks

Know where to turn if something goes wrong

Get urgent help for a severe reaction

Severe reaction guidance · As of September 17, 2026.

A severe allergic reaction can show up as trouble breathing, tongue swelling or a swollen face.

Call 911 or go straight to the closest emergency room.

Read about severe allergic reactions

MedWatch is the FDA's reporting service. Patients can use it to report a medicine problem they suspect.

Report a medicine problem to the FDA