these left over medicines are ones that my doctor had me buy and are not just over the counter ones either and I hate to just throw them away if someplace out there can use them. I would like to donate them to someone who can use them and I don't want to just throw them away if there are people out there that can use them and maybe can't afford them
2007-07-18 08:57:54 · 5 answers · asked by trixy48@sbcglobal.net 2 in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Pain & Pain Management
They can't give medicine to people you have opened. Not saying you are, but some freak could poison them and they wouldn't know. I would say flush them so nobody that doesn't need them takes them, which is bad. Your kind for wanting to help, sadly there are too many wackos out there for the good people to help.
2007-07-18 09:01:59 · answer #1 · answered by Jnhatch 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go to any pharmacy and tell the pharmacist that you have these perscriptions and that they are out dated. They will take them and dispose of them and dispose of them the proper way because other people might use the drugs if found in a trash can and get "high". Go to CVS, Walgrens, target, walmart-anywhere and tell them that these are persctiption that are out dated and you don't use anymore. If I were you, I will not give them to other people becaus of the effects it has on someone else, not one drugs is good got everyone. Even though patients are percribed the same perscriptions, they have different Milligrams and doseages in them.Play it safe and give them to a pharmacy.
2007-07-18 16:05:00 · answer #2 · answered by greenburg603 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Prescription medication legally is non-returnable and techniquely illegal for anyone other than yourself (the person's name on the label) to take. It's not advisable to throw them in the garbage - it's better to flush them down the toilet to avoid anyone going through your garbage or an animal inadvertently being exposed. Its sad that there are people who could benefit from something you already paid for but it's illegal.
2007-07-18 16:03:48 · answer #3 · answered by kathykoul 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its really against the law for someone other than the one who the medicine is prescribed to to take it. The best thing to do is flush it down the toilet.
2007-07-18 16:03:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No
2007-07-18 19:09:38 · answer #5 · answered by cowboydoc 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋