# What if the pharmacy gives you too many pills?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-pharmacy-gives-you-too-many-pills/227366>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 3, 2004, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-pharmacy-gives-you-too-many-pills/227366 "2004-02-03T20:28:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2004, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-pharmacy-gives-you-too-many-pills/227366/21 "2004-02-06T13:22:51Z")

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> [@dutchboy208](#):
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> If I remember rightly, the NHS charges you five quid for any medication and covers the rest, right?

I think its actually more like £6. But I’m not sure. Children get it for free and I haven’t needed any medication since I was a child. The only thing I take is the pill, which is free on the NHS as it is contraception.

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**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2018, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-pharmacy-gives-you-too-many-pills/227366/23 "2018-02-05T20:23:17Z")

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Reported for all kinds of inappropriateness.

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**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2018, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-pharmacy-gives-you-too-many-pills/227366/24 "2018-02-05T20:28:29Z")

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Google. A mixed blessing and curse.

The blessing is that we can have effective search of threads here, since the built-in search capability is anything but effective.

The curse? The pointless zombie we see here is a good example. Thanks Google.

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**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2018, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-pharmacy-gives-you-too-many-pills/227366/25 "2018-02-05T20:33:14Z")

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> [@WANK\_ME\_GENTLY\_W\_A\_CHAINSAW](#):
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> Oh to live in a country where the ‘president’ is not demonstrably retarded, and healthcare is actually available as a human right.  
> \<snip\>
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> Screw the U.S. and all it NOW stands for.  
> Cheers!

The original post was written when George W Bush was new into his second term, almost exactly fourteen years ago today.

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