What you're alluding to is called an auxiliary label. There are certain requirements, again, implemented by colleges, that are expected. As a standard of practice, a pharmacist is expected to apply that label telling people to finish their antibiotics. Certainly we could come up with our own; the Canadian Pharmacists Association would be a perfect organization to actually champion that. There are sometimes simple solutions to larger problems. We can simply add a label saying, “This medication is addictive”. We would not be trying to be offensive, but certainly lots of times being direct and repetitive does work. There are lots of things a pharmacy could do at the point of dispensing to educate and make patients aware.
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