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Introduction
What is drug and poison information service for?
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This
service provides up-to-date and unbiased information
regarding medicines and their use. For example,
availability, price, substitutes, interactions,
safety in pregnancy or lactation, side effects
and their management, storage/stability and
transportation of drugs, etc.
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It also provides information regarding poison management in case of common household poisonings, occupational exposures to various chemicals, and information on supportive treatment in case of hospital admission. |
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Who can derive benefit from this service?
A layman as
well as a health care professional is equally benefited
by the service.
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Who provides information? 
Specially trained drug information “pharmacist” is responsible for providing information. A pharmacist is a “drug expert” who
can give advice regarding safe and effective use
of medication.
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What is the need of Drug Information Service?
 Generally, people have very little knowledge regarding proper use of medication. This lack of knowledge may become harmful as it may lead to aggravation of disease, more side effects, less compliance, and even increased cost of therapy.
Various studies
have shown that if patients discuss their therapy related
problems and concerns with a drug expert–a pharmacist,
it resulted in increased compliance and better treatment
outcomes.
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As
a health care professional:
 In
Pakistan, the absence of an organised channel for obtaining
and disseminating drug and poison related information
has been a crucial problem for the health sector at
large. Information is generally propagated either by
word of mouth or via representatives of pharmaceutical
companies.
Such information,
which is mostly incomplete and biased, leads to serious
consequences with regards to quality in health sector
and rational prescribing.
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