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Originally Posted by redforever
2. As I said above, they might not hurt you, but they are less effective. By taking medications wrong, in other words as not prescribed by your doctor, or by taking medications that are past their expiry date, you are only setting up the germs in your body to become immune to the same medications that are supposed to help you.
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Just adding that this is not necessarily true. It depends entirely on what the type of drug is and bacteria for sure develop resistance to antiobiotics. Other common things like acetaminophen (tylenol) or acetylsalyicylic acid (A.S.A., Aspirin) that you might take for a cold act in completely different ways. I'm actually not sure that those drugs have lost their effectiveness since they were first discovered 100+ years ago.