[Maria]

All have a responsibility when it comes to this potential problem.

Providers and pharmacists for education and for making sure as best they are able that they are aware of what patients are taking including OTCs and supplements before prescribing/dispensing.

Patients have the responsibility to be as honest and careful as they are able in telling their providers everything they are taking that might potentially interact with any new drug prescribed.

Patients also have the responsiblity of keeping their meds/drugs locked up or somewhere that others cannot easily access including pets.

Patients have the responsibility to ask questions and educate themselves and take their medications responsibly!!!

and much much more however I think it's far easier to get tons of scripts today for all kinds of things and so we have to be that much more careful with regard to what we are ingesting and how we are taking these meds/drugs (responsibly).

thanks Mark for bringing this up (again? or maybe that was another forum that I frequent).