A survey on medicines safety and usage in community pharmacy.

Abstract

Medicines are important agent in curing the several diseases of the patient by lowering the signs and symptoms through different mechanism. If the medicines, are over used, under used and misused leads to therapeutically ineffectiveness and adverse drug reactions.[1] In the developing countries, there is huge demand for creating the awareness regarding irrational use of medicines, which can prevent the unwanted effects of the medicine also self‐medication is another issue which has become more common especially for over‐the‐counter medications and also factors such as socio‐economic status, satisfaction of the patient, gender etc., which has led to several interactions and adverse drug reaction due to the lack of knowledge on drugs.[2] Drugs like antibiotic proven to be of higher resistance due to improper prescribing and usage are being self‐medicated without the exact knowledge leading to morbidity and mortality.[3]