Prescription drug safety resources

MedEffect Canada provides patients and health professionals a way to report adverse drug reactions and learn about new safety information. Report online or phone Health Canada ---1-866-234-2345 (toll-free).

RxISK.org is a free, independent drug safety website to help you weigh the benefits of any medication against its potential dangers. Their goals are to educate and patients to enable them to have better conversations about medication with their doctors and also to collect data on the unintended consequences of prescription medications and draw attention to those problems. 

DrugWatch.com is a US website that helps lists prescription drug and medical devices class action lawsuits. Sponsored by a U.S. law firm that specializes in "mass torts and complex litigations where consumers were injured by the wrongdoings of large corporations."

Learn about how antibiotics (use and overuse) can negatively affect the gut microbiome at SynergyNutrition.ca and get tips on how to improve microbiome health (essential for our overall wellbeing).

Learn about prescription drug and pharmaceutical industry problems from Alan Cassels who writes for Common Ground.