Patients Must Complete the Drug Treatment Period

September 2, 2002 - 0:0
TEHRAN -- Unfortunately, Some patients use drugs willfully without doctor prescription. It is strange that people know the side effects of drugs but they use it with their diagnosis.

In fact, they don't know each pill have special side effect.

It is the doctors and pharmacists responsibility to inform the patient's of drugs side effects.

Statistics confirm that the antibiotic usage rate is increasing in the society and the patients don't complete the treatment period and it causes microbes defense against antibiotic.

Doctors should remind the patients of over consumption of drugs and their side effects beforehand, when they prescribe drugs to prevent any danger.

In recent years, our economy has been badly affected by over consumption of drugs, even though the mass media warned our countrymen from doing so.