CLASStime: Medication wastage

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CLASStime: Medication wastage

By Sue Frankland
FRAZ Drug wastage
[Image: Fraser Williamson]

In this article, Sue Frankland looks at the global problem of wastage of medications, including causes such as overprescribing and non-adherence. She also presents information from her master’s dissertation on how people understand, and respond to, medication expiration dates

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