what to do with old Rx
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Anonymous
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Getting ready to move after almost 30 years and on the kitchen top shelf I have this box of old prescriptions. It's full and about the size of a shoe box.
I suppose it started with 9-11 when I stock-piled Cipro (and yes I still have those bottles from 2001). And then, whenever I had left overs, I'd throw them up there; some anti-psychotics, some anti-biotics, a bunch of oxy-acetaminophen. I can figure out where to take them, the things is, I don't want our names still on them. I know the pharmacist will probably give me the stink eye, lol. Will it make life difficult for the pharmacy if I throw them in a labelled zip lock bag? Some bottles I can just rip off the identifying label, but others I can't. |
Anonymous
| No just take them off and turn them in to the drop off station. |
Anonymous
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Keep the pain killers, they will still be good.
The antibiotics will be aged to the point of probably being no good anymore. The other stuff is junk. Crush them into powder and scatter or bury in yard. Do not put down toilet. |
Anonymous
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I don't remember what it's called, but when I had prescription painkillers for oral surgery my pharmacy gave me packets of powder that you mix with the meds and water to dispose of them safely.
Fire/police departments or county health departments sometimes have medication disposal options as well. |
Anonymous
No, take them to the pharmacy. They all have drop off boxes. |
Anonymous
| You don't have to hand them to the pharmacist - you just put them in a huge thing that looks like a mailbox. You're being paranoid about your name being on bottles. They truly don't care. |
Anonymous
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There was just a National Take Back Day last Saturday; I dropped my old prescriptions off at the local police station. Looks like they have some year-round locations too, mostly pharmacies:
https://www.dea.gov/everyday-takeback-day |
Anonymous
| Do not bury them. After a storm they will wind up in the groundwater. Think of the Chesapeake Bay/ fish. |
Anonymous
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Some CVS and Walgreen's locations have the dropoff boxes for free.
The University hospital near me has a dropoff box. |
Anonymous
| CVS usually has a mailbox type container near the pharmacy. |
Anonymous
| Our police station has a drop box in the lobby. I take the labels off before I drop them in. |
Anonymous
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Safeway has drop boxes too.
The Cipro may still be good. Really. The military stockpiles are decades old |
Anonymous
Garbage med. Burn it. |
Anonymous
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Your local dump may take these and other toxic items. You might find other toxic things in your house like old paint and you could make a trip.
My pharmacy has a take back box that I use. Check around. Sometimes police and fire stations take them. |
Anonymous
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I wonder what those pharmacy drop box places actually do with them?
Guessing they burn them in their incinerators, but I'd wonder how many reuse and sell them. 
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