{"id":5992,"date":"2016-03-14T13:13:36","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T17:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medisafeapp.wpengine.com\/guest-blog-auhsop-script-future-team-write-local-pharmacist-can-help-stay-track-meds\/"},"modified":"2016-03-14T13:13:36","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T17:13:36","slug":"guest-blog-auhsop-script-future-team-write-local-pharmacist-can-help-stay-track-meds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medisafeapp.com\/es\/guest-blog-auhsop-script-future-team-write-local-pharmacist-can-help-stay-track-meds\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Blog: The AUHSOP Script Your Future team write how your local pharmacist can help you stay on track with your meds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did you know that nearly three out of four Americans don\u2019t take their medications as directed? Or that one out of three Americans never even fill their prescriptions in the first place? \u00a0How about that 125,000 people die every year due to non-adherence with their prescription medications?<\/span>
\nScript Your Future<\/span><\/a> (SYF) is a national campaign that focuses on addressing this important issue by informing the public about the important role medication adherence plays in taking control of one\u2019s health. <\/span>
\nThe objective is all about impacting medication adherence in the United States. Pharmacy schools across the country participate in the Script Your Future Medication Adherence Team Challenge to spread the message and hopefully contribute to this objective. <\/span>
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\nThe Auburn University Harrison School of Pharmacy (AUHSOP) has embraced the SYF challenge by creating innovative strategies to help improve medication adherence in Alabama. Our team has reached out to hundreds of persons in the Auburn, Alabama community. \u00a0We’re focused on helping our community members take charge of their health by 1) learning the importance of taking their medications as prescribed and 2) receiving tips on how to be more adherent. Now, we would love to share this information with you too!
\nMedication adherence is an important issue both for you as a patient and for our country overall. As a patient, taking your medications as prescribed can help you live a longer and fuller life. Patients who do not take their medications as prescribed contribute to one in three medicine-related hospitalizations. \u00a0<\/span>
\nBeing non-adherent to your medications can also lead to preventable disease progression, disease complications, a lower quality of life, and even premature death. All of these issues cost the country nearly $300 billion each year in extra expenses for doctor visits, emergency room visits, hospital admissions, and additional medicine.
\nTherefore, when you take your medications as prescribed you are helping yourself stay healthy and are also decreasing your risk of disease complications or progression; in addition, you are also helping save health care costs for our country. <\/span>
\nDespite all of this, three out of four people still do not take their medicine as prescribed. There are many reasons why people don\u2019t take their meds, such as<\/span><\/p>\n