Notes from Youville
Notes from Youville: Medication Disposal
Lexington assisted living residence Youville Place provides tips for proper disposal of medications.
It’s a quiet Saturday afternoon, and you’re in the midst of fall cleaning. After hours spent rummaging through stacks of old papers and magazines, you make your way into the bathroom. Opening the cabinet above the sink, you confront a dense wall of amber medicine bottles. Some of them have expiration dates from nearly five years-ago. These bottles take up so much space in the cabinet that you no longer have room for all of them. What do you do with all the old medication? Is it safe to flush down the toilet, or to throw in the garbage? Given how little is known about the way pharmaceuticals effect our environment, we might not often think seriously about the topic of proper medication disposal. However, the U.S. Food and Drug …
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