What Is an 'AZ' Drug?: Decoding Common Medication Confusion
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The colloquialism 'az drug' does not refer to a single medication or official drug class, but often leads to patient confusion. Instead, this abbreviation can be a mishearing or a casual shorthand for several different and unrelated medications, most commonly referring to the 'Z-drugs' used for insomnia, the antibiotic azithromycin, or the antiretroviral zidovudine (AZT).
