A dosage form that is suitable for delivering drugs to the skin. It consists of a drug that is impregnated into a flexible, durable woven fabric or extruded synthetic material that is coated with an adhesive agent. not designed to control the release rate of the drug-like transdermal patches drug content is expressed as an amount per surface area with respect to the tape surface exposed to the skin. use of an occlusive dressing over the tape enhances the rate and extent of delivery of the drug to deeper layers of the skin and may result in greater systemic absorption of the drug. a portion of the tape slightly larger than the area to be treated is cut and removed from the backing paper.