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The NZ Drug Foundation is pleased the Medicines Classification Committee has removed some of the red tape blocking access to the lifesaving, overdosereversal medication naloxone, although it wishes the committee’s recommendations had gone further.
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
Why recognising the signs of dehydration is important...
