Child-resistant, senior-friendly unit dose container

A container for doses of medicine, comprising:

• a hollow plastic container body having an open end with an elongate, substantially-rectangular rim and an opposite closed end, said container body being substantially rectangular in transverse cross-section;
• a substantially flat blister card carrying a plurality of doses of medicine within separate blister compartments projecting from an upper face of said blister card, said open end of said container body corresponding in size to an end profile of said blister card so that said blister card is slidable in only an end-to-end direction relative to said container body such that said blister card is positionable in a retracted position in which said blister card is located within said container body and a dispensing position in which said blister card extends at least partly through said open end of said container body;
• a plastic cap removably securable to said rim of said container body to seal said open end of said container body, said cap has a substantially-rectangular end wall and a peripheral sidewall extending from an underside of said end wall;
• a spring mounted on said underside of said end wall of said cap in a position to engage said rim of said container body when said cap is applied to said open end of said container body;
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• a locking mechanism preventing said blister card from undesired separation from said container body.