Medication Safety Quotes

The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy

Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.

Over the past decade, prescribing information has grown more and more complex, more and more dense and more difficult to negotiate.

The nice thing about Viagra is that they are proving men can go blind on it, so you can gain weight and have a great sex life.

Advil has a candy coating. It's delicious. Then it says on the bottle, do not have more than two. Then why do they have a candy coating? I cannot help myself. Let me have ten Advil, I have a sweet tooth.

You shouldn't be told you're completely irresponsible and be left alone with too much medication. It's too easy to forget. You take a couple of sleeping pills and you wake up in twenty minutes and forget you've taken them. So you take a couple more, and the next thing you know you've taken too many.

I love Viagra. I don't need it, but I tried it. It's a great legal drug.

Depakote also has a really bad side effect, which is death.

Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

I think there's no question that vaccines have been absolutely critical in ridding us of the scourge of many diseases - smallpox, polio, etc. So vaccines are an invaluable medication. Like any medication, they also should be - what shall we say? - approved by a regulatory board that people can trust.

There has been a lot of media attention around the dangers of drugs used to treat mental illness on the fetus.

If the FDA would spend a little less time and effort on small manufacturers of vitamins...and a little more on the large manufacturers of...dangerous drugs..., the public would be better served.

Antibiotics have serious adverse reactions: diarrhea, anaphylaxis, allergies, rashes. We don't give these medications without discussing the risks and benefits and only when they're properly indicated.

We might die from medication but we sure killed all the pain

Tranquilizers work only if you follow the advice on the bottle - keep away from children.

No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along.

If a drug has anything going for it at all, it should be self-limiting. It should tell you when you've had enough.

To my knowledge, there have been no studies done on the effects of antidepressants and altitude. But it is hugely important to find out if there are side effects. We should also find out what are the effects on fine motor skills and reaction time. These are all important questions that should be assessed.

You would think that, at this point, with records being kept and the vast amount of knowledge on these drugs, the pharmacists could wave off prescriptions that are dangerous to customers.

After 9/11, I went to work with Republican mayor, governor and president to rebuild New York and to get health care for our first responders who were suffering because they had run toward danger and gotten sickened by it. Hundreds of thousands of National Guard and Reserve members have health care because of work that I did, and children have safer medicines because I was able to pass a law that required the dosing to be more carefully done.

And while we are on the subject of medication you always need to look at risk versus benefit.

A comprehensive education is a well-stocked pharmacy: but we have no assurance that potassium cyanide will not be administered fora head cold.

When you prescribe a new drug, often you are prescribing something that has only been tested in a few thousand people for a very short period of time, perhaps only six months, and that's not long enough to know whether there are any medium- or long-term side effects.

The need to understand prescription information can literally be a matter of life and death.