Royal Pharmacists Club, India

Your pharmacist is one of the most important healthcare professionals you would meet most often for all your medicine requirements and talking with about your health. Your pharmacist works very closely with your doctor to give expert information about your current health condition and medicines.

Your pharmacist may support you by
✅ Discussing your medicines with you
✅ Helping you take your medicine the right way
✅ Keeping you pre-informed about your medicines side-effects
✅ Identifying any medicine-medicine, medicine-food interactions
✅ Helping you manage your other health conditions

A pharmacist is a bridge between doctors and patients who counsel and advice patients to maximize the desired effect of drugs and minimize the untoward/adverse effects of drugs.
The basic duty of a pharmacist is to check prescriptions from physicians before dispensing medicines to patients thus ensuring that the patients do not receive

📌 Take wrong/incorrect medicines
📌 Take an incorrect dose of medicine
📌 Take with incorrect medicines

Dispensing the wrong drugs or giving incorrect usage instructions can have serious consequences for patients, including death.

Pharmacists also offer guidance on the side effects; the medication can have and warn against actions that could be dangerous while the patient is using the medicine, such as consuming alcohol or operating heavy machinery.

Several reasons could be attributed to the irrational use of drugs/medicines. Some of the most common ones are mentioned below:

Patients
👉 Drug misinformation
👉 Misleading beliefs
👉 Inability to communicate problems

Prescribers
👉 Lack of education and training
👉 Lack of drug information
👉 High patient load
👉 Pressure to prescribe
👉 Generalization of limited beliefs
👉 Misleading beliefs about the efficacy

Industry
👉 Promotion
👉 Misleading claims

Drug Supply
👉 Inefficient management
👉 Non-availability of required drugs

Drug Regulation
👉 Availability of unsafe drugs
👉 Informal prescribers

Source: archives.who.int

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Having diabetes has been associated with a lot of mental distress that shares traits of stress such as depression and anxiety. A study that analyzed 588408 records from the United Kingdom showed that the risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus was higher in people with severe mental illness. This relative risk of type 2 diabetes was higher in the younger population.

Source: Diabet Med. 2017; 34(7):916–924.

Happy Independence Day to all pharmacists