Category: Antibiotic awareness

In 2022, amoxicillin was the most frequently prescribed oral antibiotic in the United States, with 49.8 million prescriptions [1.8.1]. But despite its common use, is there an over the counter amoxicillin? The answer is a definitive no, for critical public health and safety reasons [1.2.2].

In the U.S., at least 2.8 million antibiotic-resistant infections occur annually, resulting in more than 35,000 deaths [1.7.1, 1.7.5]. A key question to address this crisis is: **what happens if I take amoxicillin and don't need it?**