When taking any medication, following your doctor’s instructions is very important, needless to say. However, one woman from Arizona had second thoughts about their doctor’s orders when her antidepressant description told her to “drink alcohol with this drug.” As anyone would know, taking any medication with any sort of alcohol is not ideal in the slightest and can sometimes have adverse effects. But the subtle joke here is that the instructions didn’t actually tell her to drink with her medication; the label was just poorly or lazily printed and slapped onto the bottle.
“The way they printed this label for antidepressants,” sighed the Arizonan, posting the photo of her bottle’s instructions on r/mildlyinfuriating. In the picture, it’s clear that something was printed above the part that read “drink alcohol with this drug,” with “do not” likely following the ‘first’ visible line of instructions. Yet whoever printed and stuck the label on the bottle didn’t care much whether the directions made sense if the label was improperly placed. “That’s a lawsuit waitin’ to happen,” remarked a commenter.
But of course, the Average Joe or Plane Jane will likely know by common sense that alcohol and medication don’t go together, even if the label incorrectly told them to. That said, plenty of Redditors had a laugh at the Arizona woman’s poorly printed prescription label. “If you insist!” joked the top commenter; “Don’t mind if I do!” added a reply. “Alcohol is a depressant, anti-depressants are self-explanatory – sounds like a good way to balance you out!,” exclaimed a third.
Jokes aside, the misalignment of the label’s directions might have been a minor mistake but was still rather unprofessional. “It should not have left the pharmacy like this,” said a commenter. “Pharmacist was supposed to catch this and reprint it.” Truly, the average person will have a chuckle over how the prescription was printed, but in the rare case someone with less common sense were to misinterpret the instructions, things could end up in a bad situation.
