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It's mostly just how it's been done. You can still get a prescription "filled" by getting blister packs in the US. But if you think of drugs that are dispense
by refurb 4y ago
It's mostly just how it's been done. You can still get a prescription "filled" by getting blister packs in the US.
But if you think of drugs that are dispenses in the tens of thousands each month, like cholesterol medication - the amount of packaging the pharmacy would have to store would be massive.
- sithadmin 4y agoIt's more than tradition and efficiency; the US doesn't have the supply chain trust issues that many other countries do when it comes to prescription drugs. There are plenty of parts of the world where a bottle of loose pills is going to be treated as suspect no matter who dispenses it to the patient. Giving consumers individual packages with counterfeit-deterrent measures and serialization that can be verified with the manufacturer as part of a valid production lot increases consumer confidence and makes counterfeiting more difficult.