​Feeling unwell after taking medicine? Here’s how to report it

VH-studio/Shutterstock.com Take a medicine and start feeling a bit off, and it’s easy to assume you’re imagining it. Sometimes you’re not. It could be a known side-effect – the sort of thing listed on the leaflet in the packaging. Or it could be something known as an adverse drug reaction, or ADR. The terms get used interchangeably, but they’re not quite the same thing. An ADR is an effect that’s new, unexpected, or more severe than anyone anticipated – and it can strike when you start a…