How to safely dispose of your old medications
A handy guide to help you, yes YOU, combat the opioid epidemic.
By Sara Chodosh April 25, 2018
Just think for a sec about how many old pill bottles you have lying around.
The rising opioid epidemic has prompted a lot of folks to get a handle on their old medications. Three-quarters of all opioid abuse starts with misusing a prescription from someone else. Family members and friends (and, yes, drug dealers) can often be the original sources for an addiction. This fact has highlighted just how many prescription medications people have lying around. Many of us have medicine cabinets resembling a mini pharmacy with shelves stocked full of expired prescription drugs: Painkillers from your kid’s wisdom teeth extraction, allergy meds that did nothing, and other pills that you no longer need. Let’s face it. Potentially dangerous substances are ubiquitous in medicine and, as such, just as pervasive in our own homes.
https://www.popsci.com/old-medications-prescriptions-disposal
