On this prescription sheet issues. For those who fully don’t understand.
There are medications known as “POMs” these are “Prescription Only Medications”. POMs are medications you can only get with a VALID prescription.
A valid prescription here has (i) the name of the institution it is coming from, (ii) the name of the prescriber, (iii)signature, (iv) date, among others. The sheet itself should be presentable and documentable.
These POMs are made so because they are:
(i) controlled medications eg pain meds like morphine, fentanyl. Misoprostol/mifepristone. etc
(ii) they can be addictive or addiction inducing. They can be abused or one can be dependent on it eg Tramadol
(iii) they are poisons, they can ki|| if used wrongly eg diazepam
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