Especially drugs that have potent central nervous system depressant properties, either to have somebody else drive or certainly to moderate and probably best to avoid alcohol in combination with some of those depressant type of medications.

Then again, just to reiterate the hidden ingredients, I always get a kick out of patients who say they're allergic to aspirin, yet you ask them what they take for their headache and other minor aches and pains and they say, "Oh, I take Anacin." So sometimes we have to take a close look at the medications to know each and every ingredient that's in there.

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