New Survey Reveals Consumers Wary of Prescription Switches
According to a new survey released by the National Consumers League (NCL), nearly three-quarters of prescription
drug users would be very concerned if a drug they were prescribed was switched to another drug designed to
treat the same condition without their doctor’s knowledge. Even with their doctor’s knowledge, one in five surveyed
are concerned about the practice, known as therapeutic substitution, the dispensing of an alternative to a prescribed
medication that is not chemically or generically equivalent but is in the same therapeutic class and is used to treat the
same condition. Read more...