stackyFACTSTaking a pill every eight hours isn't a random schedule pulled out of thin air to inconvenience you. It is strictly mathematically determined by the drug's half-life—the exact time it takes for half the active chemical to be processed out of your system. Miss the window, and you drop below the therapeutic threshold.
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