US Drug Watchdog Now Urges Consumers Who Were Given the Wrong Prescription or Someone Else's Prescription at a Local Pharmacy to Call About Possible Financial Rewards - Did You Keep the Pills?
WASHINGTON, Oct. 30, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- The US Drug Watchdog says, "We are appealing to individuals who was given a totally wrong prescription or another person's prescription medication by a local pharmacy to call us anytime at 866-714-6466. If a person receives the wrong medical prescription, a prescription with an incorrect dosage, or someone else's prescription---the medical complications could be extremely serious, or the side effects could be lethal.
"If you were given a completely incorrect medication or someone else's prescription did you keep the medication, or keep the sales receipt that indicates the error? We would like to help you get compensated if you received the wrong medication at a local pharmacy and you were harmed because of it. However, to make compensation possible we will need proof of the mistake.
"Our effort also includes identifying a parent in any state who was given a prescription for someone else rather than their child or their child's prescription was not the correct medication, or the dosage was not correct." http://USDrugWatchdog.Com
The US Drug Watchdog's Pharmacy Errors initiative is nationwide and is focused on identifying consumers in any state who were injured because a local pharmacy gave them the prescription for someone else - or filled a prescription with the wrong medication. The group is now urging consumer in all states such as California, New York, Illinois, Florida, Texas, Ohio, New Jersey, Nebraska, Louisiana, Nevada, Minnesota, Georgia, Tennessee, Washington, Alaska, Missouri, Pennsylvania or any other state to carefully look at the prescription they are picking up at a pharmacy to ensure it really is what their physician had prescribed.
For more information, victims of pharmacy medication errors can call the US Drug Watchdog anytime at 866-714-6466. http://USDrugWatchdog.Com
The US Drug Watchdog is warning possible severe health side effects of a pharmacy medication errors include:
- Death (example a consumer with a severe heart condition is mistakenly given antibiotics. Some antibiotics can cause arrhythmia with a person with serious heart issues.)
- Hospitalization (example a pharmacist mistakenly gives a pregnant woman an epilepsy drug, the anticoagulant, or a drug to treat bipolar disorder). These types of drugs have all been linked to severe birth defects.
- Allergic reactions or a person having a severe reaction that could cause hospitalization.
- In most instances pharmacy prescription errors are caused by, labeling errors, mix-ups with another patient's order, dispensing the wrong drug or wrong dosage, incompatible health conditions or adverse interactions with other medications.
The US Drug Watchdog says, "If you possess proof your pharmacy gave you the wrong prescription or someone else's prescription, please call us anytime at 866-714-6466 - especially if you were injured by the mistake. We want to make certain you get compensated. However, as mentioned we will need proof of the mistake either being you still are in possession of the incorrect prescription, or your sales receipt indicates the error." http://USDrugWatchdog.Com
Media Contact:
Thomas Martin
800-714-0303
SOURCE US Drug Watchdog
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