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Introduction

This book will provide you with some simple ideas that can easily be implemented to help you with remembering how to take drugs. You may be reading this book to help yourself be compliant, or you may wish to help a loved one (child, parent, or grandparent) better comply with prescription instructions. This book will give you tips that you can use right away to become more compliant with taking your medications.

If you or someone you take care of or care for has trouble remembering to take scheduled doses of prescribed drugs, you or they are not alone. Taking drugs on a regularly scheduled basis is a difficult task. As a matter of fact, 50% of us are not compliant at any one point in time with the drugs that we take. Many things occur in our lives that divert our attention readily to other pressing matters. It is so easy to be critical of ourselves or others that have trouble with taking medications as scheduled. But take it easy on yourself! Many times the dosing and frequency of administration of drugs can be confusing and bewildering.

This book is written to help you better understand the process of taking medications. It is not being written to tell you how much I know about drugs, it is meant to help you, or someone you care for , to better learn how to be compliant with drug regimens. It is sometimes difficult to be compliant with medications because you have so many other important things to deal with on a day-to-day basis. However, medication compliance can save you time, money, and future health care problems. Throughout the chapters there are key points which summarize important things to consider when you take or give medications so as to help you or your loved ones to be more compliant. These points can provide immediate help to you and your loved ones as you try to comply with medication schedules.

The tips included here will hopefully provide you with some definite things to do right away to improve your health. You are the most important person in the health care system, and you are who this book is written for. Let's start today to be healthier by helping ourselves as much as we can with the drugs that we take.

From the Introduction Chapter, Page 3
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