The other day I did a post about prescription drugs so today I wanted to read a little more about them and I found some really interesting things. For one, they say prescription drugs are second only to marijuana as the most common way for teens and young adults to get a high.
There was also some advice on how to dispose of your prescription drugs to prevent others from taking ownership of them. You may find these tips useful.
- Take unused or expired drugs out of their original containers.
- Mix the prescription drugs with an undesirable substance such as coffee grounds or kitty litter and put them in impermeable, nondescript containers, like empty cans or sealable bags, to ensure that the drugs are not diverted or ingested by children or pets.
- Throw these containers in the trash.
- Flush prescription drugs down the toilet only if the accompanying patient information specifically instructs it is safe to do so. Since you probably haven’t saved any patient information inserts, you shouldn’t discard any medications into the toilet.
- Alternatively, you can return unused or expired prescription drugs to pharmaceutical take-back locations that allow the public to bring unused drugs to a central location of safe disposal.
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