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This paper introduces PharmiTech, a Clinical Decision Support System that leverages Artificial Intelligence (AI) to tackle the growing need for efficient tools to assist pharmacists. The primary focus of the tool is to identify possible herb-drug interactions and instances of prescription drug abuse, combining an expert knowledge base with a supervised classification model and providing user-friendly alerts to pharmacists. To demonstrate the capabilities of the developed tool, this paper presents its functionalities through a case study involving simulated scenarios using de-identified information to maintain the confidentiality of real patients\u2019 personal data. 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