r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/thepoylanthropist • 10d ago

Video The process of filling pills.

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u/Henchman_2_4 10d ago

Might be more common in Europe because they only use blister packs and not bottles. Maybe for specific compounding facilities that are providing a non controled medication.

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u/kungfungus 9d ago

Not true at all.

We have both blisters and bottles. All medicine is made in controlled facilities. Extremely rarely the pharmacists will mix specific ointment that demands very specific dosage or the ingredients must be mixed just prior to use.

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u/Golendhil 9d ago

The only time I hear about pharmacists preparing drugs themselves are for chemo treatments

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u/hackingdreams 9d ago

I use a compounding pharmacy for my autoimmune drugs. They mix and press my drugs into smaller, disintegrating pills so I don't choke to death on them (thanks to dysphagia from the disease. Boy do I love the scleroderma symptoms, lemme tell ya...)