10 Common Examples of The Prescribing Cascade

In this episode of Real Life Pharmacology, we’re taking a closer look at three unique opioids: tramadol, tapentadol, and meperidine. These medications have some important differences in their mechanisms, clinical uses, drug interactions, and safety concerns. We’ll review the key ...  Show more

In this episode of Real Life Pharmacology, we’re taking a closer look at two unique opioids: methadone and buprenorphine. Both medications have important roles in pain management and opioid use disorder, but their pharmacology, dosing, drug interactions, and safety considerations ...  Show more

Polypharmacy is a rapidly worsening problem that hits elderly patients particularly hard.  As patients grow older, they need more medications but at the same time become less capable of managing the complexity of drug treatments.  In order to simplify treatment regimens for ol ...

Unnecessary medical testing often leads to a “care cascade” that results in real harm and sky-high costs.

Send us a voicemail!Look-alike medicines, unclear communication and distractions during administration – medication errors may occur for many different reasons. They all have in common that they are unintended mistakes in the drug treatment process that may or may not lead to pat ...  Show more

Remembering to take medication properly can sometimes be challenging, and even small mistakes can have unintended consequences. That’s why we’re talking about ways to fix three common prescription problems. To support more content like this, become an AARP member at aarp.org. An ...  Show more