The Essential Guide to Prescription Drugs 2003: Everything You Need to Know for Safe Drug Use - Softcover

Rybacki, James J.

9780060508883: The Essential Guide to Prescription Drugs 2003: Everything You Need to Know for Safe Drug Use

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060508884 ISBN 13: 9780060508883

Publisher: Harper Resource, 2002

For more than twenty-five years The Essential Guide to Prescription Drugs has helped families make sense of the overwhelming and often contradictory flood of information about their prescriptions. Filled with critical health information, this fully revised and updated edition provides more detailed and comprehensive profiles on the most important drugs in current use than any other reference source. You'll find:

the benefits and risks of each drug highlighted in quick, easy-to-read reference boxes

how each drug works and what to do if you miss a dose

comprehensive safety information -- including the latest details on dangerous drug combinations and interactions with herbal medicines

special precautions to take if you're over sixty, pregnant, or breastfeeding

cost-saving advice for both consumers and medical professionals

16 pages of color photographs of common prescription drugs

and much more!

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About the Author:

James J. Rybacki, Pharm.D., is president of The Clearwater Group, an international therapeutic, professional, education, research, and management concern; a clinical assistant professor at the University of Maryland; a national adviser to the American Heart Association; and a nationally recognized speaker on medical adherence. He lives in Maryland.

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