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A new four-year, $1.95 million grant is focused on improving medication prescribing between providers and learning more about how patients are using those drugs at home.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration receives roughly 100,000 medication error reports every year.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration receives roughly 100,000 medication error reports every year.

Paid across the board. median pay is about $16 an hour. its not just wages. >> it was routine in my store to be 3 to 500 scripts past due. >> this means people could be going out with their needed medications for days? >> absolutely. >> nbc news spoke to 22 pharmacy technicians who recently quit. >> in some states you have 60 or 70 pharmacies that are closing for days on in because they dont have the appropriate staff. >> al carter leads the national association of board pharmacies. the shortest...

Pharmacy technicians in 16 states who recently quit or were considering quitting their jobs at major chain pharmacies each said their biggest concern was patient safety. >> in some states you have, you know, 60 or 70 pharmacies that are closing for days on end because they dont have the appropriate staff. >> reporter: al carter leads the national association of board to pharmacy. he says the shortage of pharmacy techs has led to a spike in complaints and concerns about medication mistakes. >> in...

Data suggest that every year 1.5 million make dangerous drug mistakes and it is most common among senior citizens.

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Have something go wrong in the hospital that may be the result of an error, that may be the result of someone doing something wrong. >> we hear one out of three. that doesnt sound too good for us going to the hospital. how serious are these incidents or how serious are these mistakes? are you talk about life-threatening-type accidents? >> sometimes mistakes that can kill people. usually thats not the case. but the point that experts make to me all the time, why are these happening? you know, the...

Us going to the hospital. how serious are these incidents or how serious, i guess, are these mistakes were talking about? life threatening type? >> some are, mistakes that can kill people. luckily thats not usually the case. two things where something goes wrong and it needs to be fixed but in the end doesnt end up being a big deal. the point that experts make to me all the time, why are these happening? theyre preventable in most cases, why do these keep happening? lets look at the things that ...