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Where to dispose of expired/unnessary medicines?

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EW NEWBIE

Latest post on 16 January 2011 - 13:46

As I really do not want to throw them away with domestic wastes. Please, advise.

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EW GURU

Latest post on 17 January 2011 - 21:10

Medicines should never be thrown away or put into water courses, there are many negatives, there are some medicines in use here that could knock a whole villiage out of they ever got into a water system! Oh my God, do tell me which......and can I have some? When villages disappear, we know who did it.. :) But you won't tell, will you? Nope.. Surely there are some that need to be cleaned out.. :)

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Latest post on 17 January 2011 - 21:08

Medicines should never be thrown away or put into water courses, there are many negatives, there are some medicines in use here that could knock a whole villiage out of they ever got into a water system! Oh my God, do tell me which......and can I have some? When villages disappear, we know who did it.. :) But you won't tell, will you?

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Latest post on 17 January 2011 - 20:57

Medicines should never be thrown away or put into water courses, there are many negatives, there are some medicines in use here that could knock a whole villiage out of they ever got into a water system! Oh my God, do tell me which......and can I have some? When villages disappear, we know who did it.. :)

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EW OLDHAND

Latest post on 17 January 2011 - 20:45

Medicines should never be thrown away or put into water courses, there are many negatives, there are some medicines in use here that could knock a whole villiage out of they ever got into a water system! Oh my God, do tell me which......and can I have some?

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EW NEWBIE

Latest post on 17 January 2011 - 20:10

The nurse at my kids school takes expired medicines for appropriate disposal. Try checking with your kids school to see if they do the same.

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EW EXPLORER

Latest post on 17 January 2011 - 16:19

Medicines should never be thrown away or put into water courses, there are many negatives, there are some medicines in use here that could knock a whole villiage out of they ever got into a water system!

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EW NEWBIE

Latest post on 17 January 2011 - 16:15

I will ask next time I pass by a Boots.

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EW EXPERT

Latest post on 17 January 2011 - 16:05

What pharmacies take unused or expired medicines? I have been laughed at when trying to give bags of expired medicines to a pharmacy for safe disposal. Perhaps ask in a branch of Boots, they seem to have rules more inline with the UK on selling medicines than most of the others here.

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EW GURU

Latest post on 17 January 2011 - 15:20

What pharmacies take unused or expired medicines? I have been laughed at when trying to give bags of expired medicines to a pharmacy for safe disposal. I think it is a case of finding one with a proper pharmacist who knows the risks - a lot here are just dispensers which here is more or less like any other shop assistant and obviously unaware of the risks .. if all else fails I would take to the nearest clinic / hospital pharmacy.

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EW GURU

Latest post on 17 January 2011 - 15:16

may be there should be a recycling box for it next to clothes and papers/plastic... there surely is not enough awareness about this in the UAE...I for one have always binned the expired and passed on the unused ones to the neares pharmacy...wonder if hospitals should have info and boxes for the same !!! 0_o anyone knows how to start a campaign? I don't but I would add it to the list of all the other things I think the public need educating about here - it's a long list ;)

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EW NEWBIE

Latest post on 17 January 2011 - 15:15

What pharmacies take unused or expired medicines? I have been laughed at when trying to give bags of expired medicines to a pharmacy for safe disposal.

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EW GURU

Latest post on 17 January 2011 - 15:15

so the 'water' people are flushing away UK comes back to us as drinking water? Totally, totally vile. And what chemically has to be done to the 'water' to make it safe. Sheesh. Yes I also remember hearing that tap water we drink has been through at least a few other people!!! Not sure if that bit is urban myth or reality but enough to put me off tap water when I am in places like London!

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EW NEWBIE

Latest post on 17 January 2011 - 14:47

may be there should be a recycling box for it next to clothes and papers/plastic... there surely is not enough awareness about this in the UAE...I for one have always binned the expired and passed on the unused ones to the neares pharmacy...wonder if hospitals should have info and boxes for the same !!! 0_o anyone knows how to start a campaign?

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EW GURU

Latest post on 17 January 2011 - 14:25

Particularly here where people cannot afford them .. I worked in hospitals here and believe me there are people who want "old medicines" and it is not uncommon to come across people who are taking someone else's medication .. usually a relative who does not use it anymore. I was often asked for medicine by the taxi drivers who picked me up from work or some of the poorer people in the area where I lived who knew I worked at a hospital for "any medicines sister". And I have seen at hospitals I worked at in the UK, Australia and here, children brought in after ingesting medication that they found - either in or outside the home - sometimes with tragic results. I read a report somewhere a few years ago that Prozac was detectable in minute quantities in some water supplies from the amounts being flushed away !! - I can't remember if it was in the UK or US but I think it was the UK

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Latest post on 17 January 2011 - 14:12

The responsible thing to do is to return to a pharmacy for proper disposal. Throwing in a bin or flushing down the loo is not appropriate. It has been known for people to get hold of thrown away meds and flushed away drugs can get into the public water system. Snap! This makes me shudder to hear about people flushing stuff down the loo or simply throwing them in the rubbish bin. I am a nurse in a hospice and we have a meds disposal unit which is operated by our resident pharmacist. She has told us countless horror stories about what people do with unwanted meds.

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EW GURU

Latest post on 16 January 2011 - 14:19

The responsible thing to do is to return to a pharmacy for proper disposal. Throwing in a bin or flushing down the loo is not appropriate. It has been known for people to get hold of thrown away meds and flushed away drugs can get into the public water system. Snap!

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Latest post on 16 January 2011 - 14:18

if expired then bin it...that's what i did this morning...it's no use to anyone It is generally considered not safe to do this; some medications actually deteriorate in a way that makes them more toxic and any medication is dangerous if you do not need it. Throwing them in domestic waste runs the risk of someone else seeing them taking them... mostly children but in this country possibly someone poor and ignorant. It is always safest to take to a pharmacy for disposal.

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EW OLDHAND

Latest post on 16 January 2011 - 14:15

The responsible thing to do is to return to a pharmacy for proper disposal. Throwing in a bin or flushing down the loo is not appropriate. It has been known for people to get hold of thrown away meds and flushed away drugs can get into the public water system.

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EW NEWBIE

Latest post on 16 January 2011 - 14:00

if expired then bin it...that's what i did this morning...it's no use to anyone

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Latest post on 16 January 2011 - 13:48

Take them to a Hospital, Doctors practice of pharmacy for disposal.

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