A Pharmaceutics Primer on Slow Release Drugs

It’s the dreaded question about crushing that tablet. Of course, the answer’s not in the package insert, so what are YOU supposed to do? Guess what, tl;dr is here with some clues about how to figure out if and when it just might be ok to bend the crushing rules (or not).

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