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What you should Know about Drug Compounding and the Benefits
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Well to start with one needs to know what drug compounding is and how it works. Drug compounding is a process that is widely used to ensure a patient safely withdraws from drug withdrawal. It is made possible through mixing, combining, alteration of ingredients and even changing of the dosage a patient is to take. This way an individually fit medication for a certain patient is achieved. There are many benefits that one with drug compounding it is up to you to be aware on what you stand to achieve from drug compounding. The following are benefits of drug compounding.

The first benefit of drug compounding is the fact that you can get smaller doses of medication which cannot be gained from prescription drugs. What is Drug Compounding and Why It Matters in Prescription Drug Withdrawal Programs

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There are some medications such as sleeping pills and antidepressants that require a slow way of getting off the use. Therefore these require a doctors recommendation schedule which with time will end up reducing the dosage of prescription drugs. This is because the prescription drugs are not manufactured at the various dosage required during tapering process. Hence this ensures you get the right dosage for tapering.

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Secondly, by using drug compounding your dosage can be reduced safely and accurately. As is evident when a patient is taken off prescription drugs abruptly with no safe process it might have adverse effects on them. The traditional way of cutting through pills with knives as a way of tapering has been common for long. However, this can get risky in many ways from harming you self from the knife to taking imprecise dosage. It is only safe if this is done by a licensed and permitted compounding pharmacy. This also ensures accuracy is maintained. This way the compounding will be safe for you. View CNN Article on the Dangers of Benzodiazepines

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In addition, drug compounding allows you to take your drugs conveniently. The compounding pharmacy can present the compound inform of capsules or as liquid. This way the pharmacist creates the right dosage specifically based on each tampering phases you will be going through. This also emphasizes on accuracy in taking the compound. 

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Lastly one is able to achieve tapering off in a more comfortable and effective way. When you try tapering using your own methods you risk going through bigger steps in order to achieve this. This ends up proving to be uncomfortable and less effective. Moving from a full pill, to half a dosage and to nothing requires tactic without which one might end up to full pill.

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