2 Questions about expiration dates on meds

Not drunk enough for you to tell him you did when you didn’t, I guess.

He was sitting next to me at the time. He never reads the boards, and so had never seen the smiley before and thought he was quite clever. I figured it was pretty harmless. At least the rest of the post addressed the OP. Unlike this one :smiley:

Please don’t tell me you simply throw old pills into the normal trash/garbage can!:eek:
Either bring them to the nearest pharmacy, as they know how to dispose them safely (if they are competent, which I hope) or give them to your local poison mobile van when it shows up. Or donate them to those org. that test and deliver them to the 3rd world like Philster described).

Definitely no poison mobile van in these latitudes. Taking them to the pharmacy might be worth the effort for the sake of the laugh at seeing their confused faces.

Do these organizations take post-consumer drugs?

So yes, I throw them in the garbage out of their containers and mixed with the yuckie. That is the safest I can think up considering my options. I guess I could conceivably store them until my next trip to the US mainland, but just the thought of having to explain this odd cargo to a TLA officer makes me not want to.

If there is something I can do at home to really kill them, such as mixing them with bleach or something of the sort, I am all ears.

This might be a hijack, but I don’t think anyone else addressesed this. Drug abusers do not ask expiration dates or much of anything else. They are just happy if they recognize the pill or capsule.

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