Can You Read These Rxs? (December 2016)

Rx 1

Pharmacist Dinesh Patel of Rite-Aid in Merchantville, New Jersey, was impressed by how hard it was to read this prescription..

Can you read it?

Pharmacist Jessica Treadway of CVS Pharmacy in Concord, New Hampshire, was perplexed by this prescription.

SEE THE ANSWERS ON PAGE 2.ANSWERS

Rx 1: Contrave, take 2 PO BID #120

Rx 2: Celexa 20 mg 1 QD #30

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