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Hundreds of Pharmacies Are Having Trouble Filling Amoxicillin Prescriptions
- Prescriptions often rise late in year as cold weather hits
- Manufacturer doesn’t always have ‘flexibility’ to meet demand
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Hundreds of community pharmacies are having trouble filling prescriptions for amoxicillin, a common antibiotic that’s often used to treat bacterial infections in children.
Two-thirds of 333 pharmacy owners and managers who responded at the end of October to a National Community Pharmacists Association survey about drug shortages said they were having difficulty getting the antibiotic. The liquid form of the drug has been in limited supply in the US since October, according to the Food and Drug Administration, and it’s also in shortage in other countries.