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A bag of pills that a person has dropped into the box at the point of drug management in the Back Bay car park, one of many places on the National Prescription Drug Takeover Day. Once the boxes are filled, they are marked and taken by the police, and prescription drugs are destroyed. (Photo by Brianna Soukup / Portland Press Herald via Getty Images)
If you have unused prescription drugs, discard them. But not in the mouth of your family members. Or the mouth of other people from elsewhere.
Because if you leave your medications at home, others at home may end up consuming them. This can happen deliberately if there are addictive drugs, such as opioids, or they are mistakenly thought of as quick fixes, such as antibiotics, medications for the treatment of erectile dysfunction or anti-anxiety medication. Or, it can happen inadvertently, for example by taking antibiotic drugs against erectile dysfunction, which is not what you want to do if you have a cough and fever, or even candy. Do not be surprised what children can put in their mouths. Small children can be like vacuum cleaners who poop.
Throwing drugs in the trash does not necessarily guarantee that they will not end up in the mouths of others. George Costanza of the TV series Seinfeld It's not the only one who will eat things that have been in the trash. One option is to pack the medication with something really undesirable, like dirty diapers. But again, you would be shocked by the time people will take to get certain medications.
Dropping the medication in the toilet or sink is not necessarily a good idea either. I already wrote for Forbes about how antidepressants have been found in the Great Lakes and the fish, which is depressing. Your toilet is not connected to a fifth-dimensional area or the outer limits where the poo becomes a magical unicorn. It is connected to the water system and the environment. Do not add to the pollution around us.
Instead, there are safer ways to eliminate your unused prescription drugs. For example, today we are celebrating National Prescription Drug Takeover Day. The United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) works with local law enforcement agencies to provide you with points of sale in the country. As described on the DEA Take Back Day website, the National Survey of Drug Use and Health conducted in 2016 found that 6.2 million Americans were misusing prescription drugs , most of the time knowingly, unknowingly, via the home medicine cabinet. The website includes a collection site locator, where you can enter your address and find a local collection point.
Here is a DEA Tweet on today:
#TakeBackDay collection sites are NOW OPEN on the East Coast – open at 10 am local time! Help protect your community by cleaning your medicine cabinet and taking over unused medications for safe disposal! There is a location near you-find it here: https://t.co/Fn5UTMnJpp pic.twitter.com/MBnmZpU2qe
– HQ DEA (@DEAHQ) October 27, 2018
This does not mean you have to wait for the day of drug recovery to get rid of your medications. You can always find such safe disposal sites by visiting this DEA website. Ask your doctor or pharmacist, every time you get a prescription, how to safely dispose of the drugs. Also, try not to take more medicine than necessary. Medications are not like One Direction albums. Do not keep them just because you may need them someday. You must complete your prescribed full antibiotic treatment. Keeping pain medication or excess psychoactive substances can be dangerous and too tempting. Taking too much medicine to treat erectile dysfunction is just wishful thinking.
If you need to keep any extra drugs, make sure they are tidy. Treat them as money because some can be literally sold in secret.
Also, teach your children that George Costanza is not a good role model.
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A bag of pills that a person has dropped into the box at the point of drug management in the Back Bay car park, one of many places on the National Prescription Drug Takeover Day. Once the boxes are filled, they are marked and taken by the police, and prescription drugs are destroyed. (Photo by Brianna Soukup / Portland Press Herald via Getty Images)
If you have unused prescription drugs, discard them. But not in the mouth of your family members. Or the mouth of other people from elsewhere.
Because if you leave your medications at home, others at home may end up consuming them. This can happen deliberately if there are addictive drugs, such as opioids, or they are mistakenly thought of as quick fixes, such as antibiotics, medications for the treatment of erectile dysfunction or anti-anxiety medication. Or, it can happen inadvertently, for example by taking antibiotic drugs against erectile dysfunction, which is not what you want to do if you have a cough and fever, or even candy. Do not be surprised what children can put in their mouths. Small children can be like vacuum cleaners who poop.
Throwing drugs in the trash does not necessarily guarantee that they will not end up in the mouths of others. George Costanza of the TV series Seinfeld It's not the only one who will eat things that have been in the trash. One option is to pack the medication with something really undesirable, like dirty diapers. But again, you would be shocked by the time people will take to get certain medications.
Dropping the medication in the toilet or sink is not necessarily a good idea either. I already wrote for Forbes about how antidepressants have been found in the Great Lakes and the fish, which is depressing. Your toilet is not connected to a fifth-dimensional area or the outer limits where the poo becomes a magical unicorn. It is connected to the water system and the environment. Do not add to the pollution around us.
Instead, there are safer ways to eliminate your unused prescription drugs. For example, today we are celebrating National Prescription Drug Takeover Day. The United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) works with local law enforcement agencies to provide you with points of sale in the country. As described on the DEA Take Back Day website, the National Survey of Drug Use and Health conducted in 2016 found that 6.2 million Americans were misusing prescription drugs , most of the time knowingly, unknowingly, through the medicine cabinet. The website includes a collection site locator, where you can enter your address and find a local collection point.
Here is a DEA Tweet on today:
#TakeBackDay collection sites are NOW OPEN on the East Coast – open at 10 am local time! Help protect your community by cleaning your medicine cabinet and taking over unused medications for safe disposal! There is a location near you-find it here: https://t.co/Fn5UTMnJpp pic.twitter.com/MBnmZpU2qe
– HQ DEA (@DEAHQ) October 27, 2018
This does not mean you have to wait for the day of drug recovery to get rid of your medications. You can always find such safe disposal sites by visiting this DEA website. Ask your doctor or pharmacist, every time you get a prescription, how to safely dispose of the drugs. Also, try not to take more medicine than necessary. Medications are not like One Direction albums. Do not keep them just because you may need them someday. You must complete your prescribed full antibiotic treatment. Keeping pain medication or excess psychoactive substances can be dangerous and too tempting. Taking too much medicine to treat erectile dysfunction is just wishful thinking.
If you need to keep any extra drugs, make sure they are tidy. Treat them as money because some can be literally sold in secret.
Also, teach your children that George Costanza is not a good role model.
