Grocery Chains to Offer FREE Antibiotics (Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states)

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.consumerworld.org/

If you live in the Northeast or Mid-Atlantic states, you are in luck this winter because Stop & Shop and Giant Food are both offering free prescriptions of antibiotics. Until March 21, you get can up to a 14-day supply of 36 different generic antibiotic formulations free (with a prescription, of course). Here is the list of covered drugs . Maybe stores in other parts of the country will adopt a similar program.

See the link for links to the programs and the list of covered drugs.


please rec this so it can stay up for others to see.

[seemunkee]

1. They've been heavily promoting this in their ads

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. I hope that no doctors will prescribe any more antibiotics because of this

but I fear they will. If they do, it adds to bacterial immunity to antibiotics.

[Donnachaidh]

3. that is a possibility

But for all those folks out of work they are more likely to NOT fill prescriptions due to cost. This is an aid for them.

[knitter4democracy]

4. Ours in Michigan already do.

Meijers, Walmart, Target, and I think a couple of others already do. Meijers also does free prenatal vitamin prescriptions. I thought it was a national thing, since it's so big here.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

5. Is that because their food is so contaminated that

you need antibiotics after eating it? With the Bushies in charge of the FDA it wouldn't surprise me one bit.