Medications

Medication Support: Medication helps to manage illnesses while the body heals itself. Nutrition, exercise & relaxation helps the body to regain its ability to heal itself. Learn how to support medications by improving your overall health status.

Medication Education: Read about how a medication improves an illness and learn about its short & long-term effects. Then, review what you learned with your doctor & pharmacist to get your ‘medication education’.

Medication Question : Ask your doctor if there are ways to reduce or eliminate the need for taking medications. ‘Lifestyle Medicine’ and ‘Complementary & Alternative Medicine’ interventions may help to lower your medication dependency.

Pills Equal Ills: Medications help to control, manage & treat chronic (long-term) & acute (short-term) illnesses. If someone is taking pills for any reason, they are ill.

PDR It: Search the Physician Desk Reference (PDR) to learn about a specific medication. ‘Contraindications/Precautions’, ‘Adverse Drug Reactions’, ‘Pregnancy & Lactation’ sections are good places to start if you want to learn more.

Medication Effects: Medications can help your body to heal or stabilize an illness. However, medications may also cause reactions such as side effects or unwanted effects. Report these reactions to your doctor so that they can be addressed.