DISCLAIMER
This is a general overview and not a detailed list on medications to be stockpiled for an emergency. Consult your physician about personal recommendations that may vary due to age, preexisting conditions, potential conflicts with other medications you may be using, allergies, and other considerations.
For years, preparedness strategies have emphasized the importance of having natural remedies in your medical storage, simply because disaster events may leave you without the medicines so widely available today. Antibiotics and other prescription medications should also be accumulated but are harder to obtain in quantity. That leaves the drugs that will be the cornerstone of your survival medicine cabinet: over-the-counter (OTC) medications.
OTC medications are drugs that deal with a wide variety of common medical issues. They’re important to give relief from pain related to injuries, symptoms of respiratory and intestinal infections, allergies, and other issues. Many OTC drugs were once available only by prescription but are now available for use by the general public. They represent a special opportunity for the prepared citizen to have a stockpile of important therapies for various problems.
Given the complexity of manufacturing pharmaceuticals, these drugs will be nearly impossible to produce after a collapse. Even aspirin, the oldest manufactured drug, won’t be available (at least not in a form you’ll recognize). Which medications are wise (and affordable) to accumulate for possible disaster settings? Here’s a partial
