PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Pagan Burns AU - Douglas Jenkinson TI - Hazards from the use of child-resistant drug containers DP - 1980 Sep 01 TA - The Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners PG - 555--556 VI - 30 IP - 218 4099 - http://bjgp.org/content/30/218/555.short 4100 - http://bjgp.org/content/30/218/555.full SO - J R Coll Gen Pract1980 Sep 01; 30 AB - Fifty-nine patients receiving repeat prescriptions for anti-rheumatic drugs were visited unexpectedly at home and found to have had experience with `Snap-Safe' child-resistant containers. Forty-one (70 per cent) patients were unable to use them. Twenty-seven (46 per cent) patients adopted hazardous alternative methods of storage. Ways of reducing this problem are suggested.