Community Guidelines for Drugs.com Answers
Drugs.com Answers is an online community where participants can ask and answer questions concerning medications and medical conditions.
Note: Violation of the community rules and guidelines may result in the termination of your Drugs.com account without warning.
General behaviour
Share your knowledge. Your experience, knowledge and opinions may be of great benefit to someone in a similar situation.
Cite your sources. When responding to a question, you are encouraged to reference the information you find, be it from Drugs.com or another website.
Be considerate of other members. Their current situation and past experience may differ greatly from your own. Everyone wants to be treated with respect and showing respect to others makes the community better for all members.
When asking questions
Ask Clearly
Write your question in a clear and concise manner. Use proper spelling and grammar. This will allow other members to better understand what you are asking for and respond accordingly.
Stay On Topic
All questions submitted to Drugs.com Answers must relate to topics concerning medications or medical conditions. Off-topic questions may be removed without notice and may result in a loss of points or the removal of your Drugs.com account.
Proper Categorization
You are encouraged to classify your question into appropriate support groups (e.g. lexapro, anxiety, weight loss). Attaching unrelated support groups to your question is not acceptable and may result in the removal of your question or even your Drugs.com account.
Unacceptable behaviour
- Profanity, sexually explicit or vulgar language is not permitted.
- Venting, ranting or using hate speech is not permitted.
- Attempting to intimidate or bully other members either directly or indrectly is not permitted.
- In general, if you wouldn't say it in public, don't say it here.
If you find a Drugs.com member displaying unacceptable behaviour, please do not retaliate. Use the Report button (found directly on all questions and answers) to submit the post for review by a Drugs.com Administrator.
Unacceptable content
- Posts that advertise a business, website or event are prohibited unless that information is explictly requested by another member.
- Posts linking to off-topic, unrelated websites are not allowed.
- Posts that encourage or facilitate the abuse of medications or seek advice on how to abuse medications are not permitted.
- Please do not use ALL CAPS when asking or answering questions. Many internet users view text written in ALL CAPS as a form of shouting and may misunderstand your intent.
Your privacy
The identity of members remain confidential and Drugs.com will not disclose any personally identifiable details of any member to any person, except when required by law enforcement investigations (such as to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order or subpoena). For further details, please review our privacy policy.
For safety reasons, anyone under the age of 18 is not permitted to ask or answer questions on Drugs.com Answers.