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This article is the first in a three-part series designed to highlight the role pharmacists can play in reducing “the pill burden” in our society, writes Katrina Azer, clinical pharmacist at Tend Health. The articles will focus on polypharmacy, deprescribing and social prescribing, with the patient’s perspective front of mind
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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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