Prescription Medication Disposal
Decatur Metro | December 23, 2010 | 1:55 pmLooch writes in…
Does anyone know where I can get rid of expired prescription medications so I’m not dumping antibiotics down the drain and risking their introduction into the water system?
This FDA site states that many drugs listed on the page can be flushed down the toilet, even though there have been recent “reports” of trace amounts of medicines leaching into area water supplies. Lovely!
With that in mind, does anyone know of any drug disposal locations around Decatur?
The Environmental Sustainability Board has been exploring doing a prescription drug “recycling” day with the DEA. I don’t have details offhand, but am checking with the folks on the Waste committee of the board & will post an update when I get them.
Thanks KC!
Sorry to say, it looks like the date has passed – it was the National Takeback Day on September 25 (see http://www.nationaltakebackday.com/ ). Looks like this is an annual thing that DEA does, but I can’t find any information on the 2012 event yet.
The ESB will try to get the word out far & wide in advance of next year’s event, but I’d be curious to know if anyone else has leads on takebacks before then.
Take the drugs to any pharmacy and they will dispose of them properly. I give our expired drugs to the CVS on Ponce all the time.
Interesting. Never knew that. Thanks!
I tried to return some prescription drugs to Publix and they would not take them — nice to know CVS will. Thx.
If you have a lot of extra percocet I will set up a special
P.O. box where you can mail them to be disposed of
properly.
the Walgreens by Dekalb Medical has pouches in the pharmacy where you mail your old drugs to a disposal service. alternatively, you can throw them away in a bag of kitty litter. if the pills get wet and dissolve, the kitty litter will absorb it.
We have used the pouches with great success. When we tried to give our expired drugs to that Walgreens right before they introduced the pouches, we were met with blank stares. I will try CVS in the future.