| Drug identification is necessary if you have found | | | | millimeters, centimeters and inches and measure |
| unknown pills in your medicine cabinet or in your | | | | the width, height and length of the capsule. These |
| child's room. As misidentifying drugs can have | | | | numbers can be used to identify them. |
| serious consequences, making sure you know | | | | Next, the color of the pills can be used to help |
| what narcotics it is you possess is necessary. In | | | | figure out what they are. As an example, Viagra |
| the situation of the pills in your child's room, it can | | | | comes in a very noticeable blue color, which sets |
| tell you whether or not your children have begun | | | | it apart from the brown color of standard Advil. |
| to explore illegal narcotics. | | | | Once you have identified the size and shape of |
| Not all narcotics are illegal. With so many forms of | | | | your capsule, the color will further hone what the |
| Tylenol, aspirins, and similar painkillers, drug | | | | capsule actually is. |
| identification is required to prevent punishing a child | | | | Texture is something that can be noted at a look, |
| that may not have done anything sinister. Taking | | | | or by carefully feeling the capsule with your |
| the few minutes to find out what kind of pills you | | | | fingertip. While texture is not as necessary as the |
| have stumbled upon is necessary! | | | | color, size and shape of the pills, they may give |
| There are several things that you should look for | | | | the final clue to have a positive drug identification. |
| when identifying a over the counter drug. Drug | | | | If you are lucky, there will be an label on the |
| identification is a careful science, requiring a good | | | | capsule. This is done by major manufacturers to |
| eye for size, shapes, colors and textures. All of | | | | promote proper identification of pills in case they |
| these things need to be researched in order to | | | | are mixed with other narcotics with similar size, |
| make a positive identification. | | | | shapes and colors. |
| Size and shape are necessary details in drug | | | | Many illegal narcotics do not follow set size, |
| identification. Medications that are professionally | | | | shapes and colors. If you find a suspicious |
| manufactured come in standard sizes and shapes | | | | narcotics that you cannot figure out, you may |
| depending on what the drug is. These are the first | | | | need to take it to a pharmacist or lab for |
| thing that you notice when you find a stray | | | | identification. If you suspect that the capsule is an |
| capsule. If you are not good at guessing the size | | | | illegal narcotics, you should contact police |
| of a capsule, find a ruler that measures | | | | immediately. |