“It’s been a freight train,” Carter says of the popularity of his formula. “They want to know what it is,” she says. Thomas Drugs cashier Summer Little says at least 50 people a day ask about Carolina Crud Crusher. “By the end of the day, I had no sniffles. He bought four bottles of the sugar-free Crusher with family and a friend in mind, then came back a few days later and bought four more bottles. If this works, I’ll shout it from the rooftops.” “I have a lingering cold that flared up,” says Don Ward of Longwood. He explains he’s picking up a prescription for sinusitis, but he added four bottles of Carolina Crud Crusher to his purchase.ĭon Ward of Longwood buys four bottles of the sugar-free Carolina Crud Crusher at Thomas Drugs in Shallotte. “I have the flu,” says Charlie Rose of Ocean Isle Beach as he pulls at the mask covering his mouth. His wife, Natasha, is a physician.Īt Thomas Drugs in Shallotte one day this winter, a steady stream of people enter and all ask about Carolina Crud Crusher. Preston, 21, is majoring in business and Russian at University of South Carolina while Katya, 18, is majoring in environmental science at University of Colorado. Of his four children, Edward, 17, and John, 15, show an interest. Ed, 46, says he always wanted to be a pharmacist and received his pharmacy degree from Campbell University. His grandfather opened Thomas Drugs in Shallotte in 1965. The couple will have to wait a few years for son Steed, born September 2017, to voice his career preference.Įd, Carter’s business partner with Carolina Crud Crusher, is a fourth generation pharmacist. Their daughter Silvia, 2, is also showing interest in the field. Their son Ben, turns seven in May and says he wants to be a pharmacist. “ is a full-time mom and supportive wife,” Carter says. I’m one hundred percent confident this is what I’m to do.”Ĭarter and his wife, Courtney, make their home in Brunswick Forest. After graduation, he coached at Concord University in Athens, WV, but his family “nagged me to go to pharmacy school,” he says, adding that his brother, Brent, was in pharmacy school then. He ran track and cross country at Marshall University where he majored in biology and minored in chemistry. “It was the perfect name, and it sounded good.”Ĭarter said growing up he wanted to be an athlete but with ties to the medical profession. He explained he was visiting his family at their farm in Pipestem, WV where he grew up. “Within a day, they’ll start feeling better ,” Ed says. They are supportive of me and one hundred percent on board. “Ed was the motivation, the driving force behind getting over the counter,” he says. “I knew it worked,” he says.īut he credits Ed Thomas, owner of Thomas Drugs along with matriarch Sandra Thomas, for increased sales. He knew his new crud crusher was successful when, after the first week a doctor wrote the prescription, nearly two dozen people were “raving” about it. When a doctor called about three years later and asked if Carter had a cure for what was ailing so many people, “I seized the moment,” Carter recalls. Then it happened that he came down with a cold himself 12 years ago and needed relief. The driving force is listening to the needs of your patients.” Carter would experiment with different solutions and apply what he believed would work. “You start thinking about how to make changes,” he says. He explains that when people would come to the pharmacy where he worked looking for something to relieve their cough and congestion, he’d ask for specifics about the condition. Carter, 39, began working on it as a student at Medical College of Virginia (now Virginia Commonwealth University) School of Pharmacy in Richmond. “It was the perfect name and it sounded good,” he says. Brad Carter (left) and Ed Thomas each hold a bottle of Carolina Crud Crusher, a product Brad developed and named.
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