Prescription drugs, do you keep what's left over after you get better?

[LightningCrash]

I read that the drug content of city water systems including stuff like sex hormones and antibiotics is growing.

Tragedy of the commons, really.

 

[kinggabby]

I was wondering if I am the only person that squirrels them in the fridge for when I need them. Many people just tosh them.
I keep everything except antibiotics that need to be finished once started.

^^ This ^^

 

[RaysZ71]

I usually give them to my 8 and 10 year old kids to take to school and make some money to buy some PS3 games. They sell like hot cakes. JK. Pain pills we keep until they expire, then smash and trash.

 

[jbarnett]

I save most of mine. I was looking for some aspirin and found some oxy I was prescribed in 1998. I think it was time to throw them away.

 

[doctorjj]

I save most of mine. I was looking for some aspirin and found some oxy I was prescribed in 1998. I think it was time to throw them away.

It would be fine.

 

[Tully]

I keep mine too. Lots of pain pills that may come in handy some day. Just an FYI, where I work if you have an accident you are automatically drug tested. One person recently was tested and it indicated pain medication. He didn't have a valid prescription for it (valid as in not expired) and was terminated. I know, slim chance but food for thought.

 

[peanut]

With teenagers in the house I never thought it was a great idea to keep certain things around...narcotics, benzos, etc.

This right here. I cought my oldest selling pills about 7 yrs ago. I reamed his azz and told him unlabled pills were a felony. We went home and I realized some old pill bottles were almost empty. Since then, I lock pills up. He didn't even know what they were, he just said kids wanted to buy them.

 

[HMFIC]

I haven't really even taken much of anything other than the occasional antibiotic and even that is rare so there's just not much to keep at my house.

 

[peanut]

I read that the drug content of city water systems including stuff like sex hormones is growing.

So that's why this thing won't go down!!

 

[kinggabby]

Keep them. You never know when you're going to need them. Speaking of tossing them, I read that the drug content of city water systems including stuff like sex hormones and antibiotics is growing.

Explains a lot