Talk To Your Pharmacist

There’s more reason to talk to your pharmacist. Back in 2006, the Journal of the American College of Physicians published a study on how well people understand prescription labels. It turns out that a lot of people don’t – at least not well enough to take their medication properly. Predictably, people with the lowest literacy had the most trouble, but even people who seemed to understand the proper way to take medication, people with high literacy levels, didn’t really understand. As many as 27% of college graduates didn’t understand how to take their medications, and how you take your medication can make a difference in how well it works, or if it works at all.