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Identify Mystery Pills With This Field Guide

Ever find a few mystery pills in the bottom of your purse—or worse, in a place your kid or pet may have gotten into? Fortunately every medication has its own distinctive shape, color, and markings, so it’s possible to identify a lost pill...

If there’s a number printed on the pill, plug it in and you’ll have the answer. Otherwise, select its shape and color. The tool will show you all the pills that match that description. There’s also a search that goes the other way: you can put in the name of the drug, and see pictures of all the ways it’s packaged into pill form.

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