new YORK (Reuters Health) – many pharmacies
Americans they would to the adolescents
incorrect information when they communicate by phone
to ask if they can get the pill the day after without
a recipe.
In most of the States of the country, any older woman
17 years you can access without a prescription for the pill that is used
to prevent a pregnancy after having sex without
protection. Is by a decision of the Administration 2009 of
food and United States drugs (FDA for its acronym in
English).
But a new study suggests that some pharmacies not
they always have the drug, also known as Plan available
(B), or their employees would consider that only the older patients
can buy it without a prescription. Then, the teenagers do not
could access to emergency contraception.
“this is a delicate matter and could be very sensitive to the
“
teenager who is on the other side of the phone. “If no is
provides the correct information or you do not want to specify how
get the drug, the teenager would be expired”,
said Dr. Tracey Wilkinson, lead author of the study and
the Boston Medical Center pediatrician.
Wilkinson research assistants called by
phone to every five towns pharmacy posing by
a teenager of 17 years or your physician interested in get
the pill the day after.
In total, the team made 943 called chains of
pharmacies or pharmacies independent of Nashville, Tennessee;
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Cleveland, Ohio; Austin (Texas) and
Portland (Oregon).
The 80 per cent of the pharmacies responded them to doctors and
adolescents who had the emergency pill. But even in
such cases, one of every five adolescents were told that not
could buy the drug to reveal the age.
And in pharmacies without the drug, by more than one third
cases were not suggested options for girls
could get.
“Me alarmed” that one of every five adolescents could not
get the medication in pharmacies that had
available, said author.
The shortcut to this drug is important because it will
losing effectiveness every day that passes after intercourse
sexual unprotected.
Only 60 percent of pharmacies that were with the
emergency contraception responded correctly to the
physician or to the teenager on the minimum age to purchase the
drug. The rest only will sell it without prescription to one
older women.
The results, published in the journal Pediatrics,
suggest that not changed too much in these years education and the
access to emergency contraception, as felt a
specialist in reproductive health that did not participate in the study.
The team of James Trussell of Princeton University, in
New Jersey, conducted a similar study a decade ago.
Then, even doctors with contraceptives of
emergency not always wanted to help women get them.
Now, Trussell told Reuters Health: “you get
“
results are not very different, although at this time
it would seem that there are pills available or there is no misinformation
“
total indications associated with age”.
Trussell believed that pharmacies would be no training to their
staff on available standards or some employees not
would agree with the idea of delivering a pill of the
day later to a teenager of 17 years, it always generated
controversy.
Research just suggest that girls under 17 years
could use the pill the day after safely and
without a prescription. Wilkinson said that, in part, the current
misinformation comes from changes made in the past
years in the rules on the use of contraception from
emergency.
Source: Pediatrics, online March 26, 2012
