Why is it so difficult for some patients to take the medicines they are prescribed? You would think if someone had cancer, heart disease or an infection they would take the medicine their doctor prescribed, right? It turns out that even when doctors are prescribing the right medicines and patients are trying to take them, a new problem has emerged, resulting in noncompliance. This new and bewildering reason is (drum roll please)….the drugs have disappeared. Disappeared, you say? Yes, and not as in, “I can’t find the bottle” or “my dog ate them”.