Taking Medications Properly
May 2011
Stations, the following is
a news announcement. Suggested lead in 3, 2, 1…
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Not taking your medicine
as directed by your health care professional has serious
health consequences. More than one-third of medicine-related
hospitalizations and almost 125,000 deaths in the United
States each year are due to people not taking their
medicine as directed.
Surgeon General Regina M.
Benjamin says it can reduce your quality of life and
increase your chances of complications.
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NEARLY THREE OUT OF FOUR
AMERICANS DO NOT ALWAYS TAKE THEIR MEDICATIONS AS DIRECTED,
WHICH CAN LEAD TO SERIOUS HEALTH COMPLICATIONS. I KNOW
FROM CARING FOR MY OWN PATIENTS THAT IT'S NOT EASY TO
COPE WITH ONGOING HEALTH PROBLEMS LIKE DIABETES, HIGH
BLOOD PRESSURE OR ASTHMA. BUT YOU ARE NOT ALONE TALK
WITH YOUR DOCTOR, PHARMACIST OR NURSE PRACTITIONER TO
UNDERSTAND YOUR HEALTH CONDITION AND HOW MEDICINE CAN
HELP. THEN DO YOUR PART BY TAKING YOUR MEDICINE AS DIRECTED.
IF YOU DON'T, YOU'RE PUTTING YOUR HEALTH - AND YOUR
FUTURE - AT RISK.
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For more information, visit
www.ScriptYourFuture.org.
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