perscription in ziplock bag?

[Gothika]

today i went to the pharmecy to pick up my perscription and they gave it to me in a zip lock bag has this ever happend to ne one else is it normal?

 

[Marquis De Sade]

It wasn't an ACTUAL Zip-Loc bag was it? I've gotten medicine before from a doc in a smaller version with the prescription on a label slapped on the front of it but never in an actual, real store-bought Zip-Loc bag.

Weeeeeeeeeeird.

 

[Gothika]

It wasn't an ACTUAL Zip-Loc bag was it? I've gotten medicine before from a doc in a smaller version with the prescription on a label slapped on the front of it but never in an actual, real store-bought Zip-Loc bag.

Weeeeeeeeeeird.

well it had a lable on it but i found it weard i have never seen ne thing like it before

 

[Marquis De Sade]

Ah. Yeah. You're fine. It was the same as the ones you can get in the store though with the color changing thingy and the same size and everything then I'd worry. 😀

 

[Musicroxmysox]

Maybe they ran out of the little bottle thingies....I've never seen that before though...kinda odd. :/

 

[Sanhael]

I've seen it; I don't know under what circumstances a bag will be dispensed instead of a bottle. Perhaps for inexpensive drugs (that'd figure), or for prescriptions without a refill, or for a small quantity of pills?

Or... yeah, as has been suggested, when they run out of bottles.

 

[desdemona]

Still... most pharmacies are liable for putting dangerous drugs in child proof bottles. I send some prescriptions home in bags (mostly topicals that have their own bottle and are too small for a prescription label). So I'd say it depends.

 

[milagros317]

My local pharmacy has been doing that for about a year now.

 

[venray]

I work in a pharmacy and have never heard of that before.....strange

 

[SamuelKhan]

The only thing I associate prescription and ziploc bag with is this...

 

[JustPeechy]

Yes and I thought it was odd too, guess they have to save the $$ where they can!