A medication carrier for administering individual doses of therapeutic
products to a patient, in a non-sequential fashion. The medication
carrier comprises a receptacle which stores individually sealed, unit
dose packages in random order, allowing each unit dose package to be
easily accessed and released in response to automated or manual
extraction. The medication carrier includes an array of stalls and
retaining means for securing the sealed unit dose packages within the
stalls until a scheduled dosing time. The unit dose packages are oriented
such that identifiers imprinted thereon can be easily read without
removing the packages from the carrier.