Meds Tampering

[jennyjoan]

A different question but above made me ask why are the meds in a blistering pack - they are sometimes so hard to get out - the bottle ones were great.

I know there is a little push out thing and I bought it but to be honest I couldn't be bothered as either you get the hold of the tablet or you don't and particularly it is difficult if you have a lot of medication. Don't get me wrong - thankfully I don't take much - but my friend has to take both steroids and heart tablets and I must take it up with her when I see her or better when I email her- last time I done the blisters came up on my thumbs I had to stop.

[wolf63]

I have to take about a dozen tablets a day and they all come in blister packs.

I organise my tablets for about two weeks ahead and popping the blister packs in a pain. Some tablets pop through no problem at all and some break.

One of my tablets is in a little capsule and can break easily - making it useless to take.

Frankie (my cat) has human drugs to take but they come in a little bottle.

[jno]

it goes back to the Tylenol murders.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Tylenol_murders

Since then they've done their best to make everything tamper-proof.

[TheChair]

It also makes it very easy to see how many you've taken.