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Free Drugs: Publix Supermarket offers antibiotics at no cost
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by Victoria Revay | August 7, 2007 at 03:14 am
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A South Florida pharmacy chain called Publix has announced that it will make seven common prescription antibiotics available for free. Publix joins Wal-Mart, Kmart and other drug retailers that already offer discounted drug programs.
The prescription antibiotics available under the program are amoxicillin, cephalexin, penicillin VK, erythromycin, ampicillin, sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim, and ciprofoxacin.
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at 05:25 on August 7th, 2007
Wow! Excellent PR move on their part. My parents live a block away from a Publix and can't say enough nice things about the company...wonder if the other big chains will follow suit?
This is kind of a trend in US society - our government's not the most competent in the world, but every now and then Big Business pitches in and helps bail it out a bit.
at 07:11 on August 7th, 2007
Victoria Revay, Good stuff.
at 18:52 on August 7th, 2007
Well, that sounds good, but the side effect is that they are also contributing to more drug resistant microbes, which leads to the "need" for more expensive and harmful antibiotics.