People often share prescription medicine

Cybergal · Apr 29, 2008

People often share prescription medicine
4/29/08

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In one-on-one interviews with 700 Americans, roughly 23 percent reported loaning their prescription medications to someone else, and 27 percent reported borrowing prescription medications.

The medications most frequently shared (loaned or borrowed) were allergy drugs like Allegra (25 percent), followed by pain medications like Darvoset and OxyContin (22 percent); and antibiotics like amoxicillin (21 percent).
Seven percent of those interviewed said they shared mood-altering drugs like Paxil, Zoloft, Ritalin and Valium. A little more than 6 percent said they shared the prescription anti-acne drug Accutane and about 5 percent shared birth control pills.

The finding that people share prescription medications "isn't terribly surprising; however, the extent of sharing was higher than we expected," study leader Dr. Richard Goldsworthy, Director of Research & Development at The Academic Edge, Inc. Bloomington, Indiana, told Reuters Health.
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panhandlepat · Apr 29, 2008

with the price of doctors and scripts.....thats a no brainer!!

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