• Consumer Education: What You Need to Know to Use Medicine Safely(Center for Drug Evaluation and Research)
• Find the Latest Drug Product and Safety Information(Food and Drug Administration)
• From Test Tube to Patient: Protecting America's Health through Human Drugs(Food and Drug Administration)
• Medicine Safety: Who's at Risk and What You Can Do(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Recalls, Market Withdrawals and Safety Alerts(Food and Drug Administration)
• Use Medicine Safely(Food and Drug Administration)

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• Quarter of Disabled Seniors Use Risky Medications(05/07/2008, HealthDay)
• FDA Concerned over Wider Use of Opioid Analgesic(05/02/2008, Reuters Health)
• Epilepsy Drug Linked to Bone Loss(04/28/2008, HealthDay)
• FDA Identifies First Steps in Requirements for Safety Plans for Certain Drugs and Biologics(03/27/2008, Food and Drug Administration)
• More News on Drug Safety

• Drug Interactions: What You Should Know(Center for Drug Evaluation and Research)

  Also available in Spanish

• General Advice on Safe Medication Use(Institute for Safe Medication Practices)
• Generic Drugs: Questions and Answers(Food and Drug Administration)

  Also available in Spanish

• Grapefruit Juice: Can It Cause Drug Interactions?(Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
• Penny Wise/Pound Foolish? Breaking Tablets to Save Money May Be Dangerous(Institute for Safe Medication Practices)
• Request a Brown-Bag Check-Up(Institute for Safe Medication Practices)
• Throw Away Your Old Medicines Safely(Institute for Safe Medication Practices)
• To Chew, or Not to Chew? Patient Dies After Chewing Medication(Institute for Safe Medication Practices)
• Treat Medication Samples with Respect(Institute for Safe Medication Practices)

• Buying Medicines and Medical Products Online(Food and Drug Administration)
• Buying Prescription Drugs Online: The Do's and Don'ts(Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
• Combating Counterfeit Drugs: A Report of the Food and Drug Administration Annual Update(Food and Drug Administration)
• Consumers Filling U.S. Prescriptions Abroad May Get the Wrong Active Ingredient Because of Confusing Drug Names(Food and Drug Administration)
• Drug Name Confusion: Preventing Medication Errors(Food and Drug Administration)
• Drugs Marketed in the United States That Do Not Have Required FDA Approval(Food and Drug Administration)
• FDA 101: Product Recalls(Food and Drug Administration)
• FDA and Product Recalls(Food and Drug Administration)
• Impact of Severe Weather Conditions on Biological Products(Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research)
• Importance of Public Comment to the FDA(Food and Drug Administration)
• Managing Drug Safety Issues(Food and Drug Administration)
• MedWatch, the FDA Safety Information and Adverse Effect Reporting Program(Center for Drug Evaluation and Research)
• Strategies to Reduce Medication Errors: Working to Improve Medication Safety(Food and Drug Administration)
• Strengthening Drug Safety(Food and Drug Administration)
• Substandard and Counterfeit Medicines(World Health Organization)

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• Emergency Department Visits for Adverse Drug Events in Older Adults(American College of Physicians)
• FDA and Nanotechnology Products: FAQs(Food and Drug Administration)
• FDA Readies for More 'Nanoscale' Challenges(Food and Drug Administration)

References and abstracts from MEDLINE/PubMed (National Library of Medicine)

• Article: Development, testing, and findings of a pediatric-focused trigger tool to...
• Article: Crystal methamphetamine smoking among regular ecstasy users in Australia: increases...
• Article: Trends in methamphetamine use in young injection drug users in...
• Drug Safety -- see more articles

• Guide to Drug Safety Terms at FDA(Food and Drug Administration)

• Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research
• Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
• Institute for Safe Medication Practices
• SafeMedication.com(American Society of Health-System Pharmacists)

• FDA Consumer(Food and Drug Administration)

• FDA Law Enforcement: Critical to Product Safety(Food and Drug Administration)
• FDA Takes Action against Unapproved Drugs(Food and Drug Administration)
• How to Report Problems with Products Regulated by FDA(Food and Drug Administration)
• Questions and Answers about the New Content and Format Requirements for Prescribing Information(Center for Drug Evaluation and Research)
• Reporting Unlawful Sales of Medical Products on the Internet(Food and Drug Administration)
• Special Risks of Pharmacy Compounding(Food and Drug Administration)
• Vaccine Adverse Event Report System(Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research)

• Medications: Using Them Safely(Nemours Foundation)

  Also available in Spanish

• Medication Use and Older Adults(Food and Drug Administration)
• Medicines: Use Them Safely(National Institute on Aging) - Links to PDF

  Also available in Spanish