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On Stay Safe Rx you will find current events and resources advocating for safe prescription labeling practices. When patients struggle to see, read or understand their prescription labels they are more likely to take the wrong medication, take it improperly, or not take it at all. Pharmacies can make prescription labels more accessible by incorporating dual-language, audible, large print, Braille, plain language, and user-friendly designs. Check out the resources in the side bar to assist your own advocacy efforts or browse through posts to see what others are working on or have achieved.

Language Access Testimony from Oregon HB 2935 (2019)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

Reference Links:

Not knowing English should not be held against them – many know some English and many other languages, just not medical terminology.
https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/mediaplayer?clientID=4879615486&eventID=2019031346&startStreamAt=2029&stopStreamAt=2055

Translation on the bottle is the safest place
https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/mediaplayer?clientID=4879615486&eventID=2019031346&startStreamAt=431&stopStreamAt=450

Inadequate amount of treatment/ wrong dose
https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/mediaplayer?clientID=4879615486&eventID=2019031346&startStreamAt=1073&stopStreamAt=1144

Other methods like color coding meds are unsafe.
https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/mediaplayer?clientID=4879615486&eventID=2019031346&startStreamAt=1144&stopStreamAt=1180

30 years of technology…ask ourselves why?
https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/mediaplayer?clientID=4879615486&eventID=2019031346&startStreamAt=1180&stopStreamAt=1203

Iraqi refugee managing asthma inhalers for 5 kids
https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/mediaplayer?clientID=4879615486&eventID=2019031346&startStreamAt=302&stopStreamAt=347

Multiple dosages hard to differentiate.
https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/mediaplayer?clientID=4879615486&eventID=2019031346&startStreamAt=1777&stopStreamAt=1872

A young mother afraid to give her newborn the wrong medication
https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/mediaplayer?clientID=4879615486&eventID=2019031346&startStreamAt=1903&stopStreamAt=1941

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