Then, they raided my refrigerator...without a warrant.
Posted on 04/28/2017 9:58:08 AM PDT by bgill
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Then, they raided my refrigerator...without a warrant.
It seems more for show.
It’s now frowned on to just flush pills, for reasons of water pollution. But the answer is to give them to a pharmacy, which will have them disposed of as hazmat.
Not one of the delegated powers to the United States, Article I Section VIII.
Terminate it!
Your comment does not make sense. If there is a place to take outdated drugs to be disposed of in ways they will not contaminate our food or water supplies, it should be done. You should not just flush them down the hopper. A lot of these drugs are not easily made harmless. For just one person, it wouldn't matter. But it's not just one person. It's millions of pounds, FRiend, a little from each of hundreds of millions of people in the US alone.
Use your head. And turn excess medications in to a proper receiving agency, keeping the labels on the bottle so the receivers can identify them for proper destruction.
The whole drug prohibition regime is sketchy.
It used to be that this matter was a matter of concern to doctors and preachers. Which is how alcohol should have stayed, with optional local limitations on sales but not on ownership. Prohibition was not a conservative idea; it was a progressive idea. It is now a tiger that we are riding and that we can’t see any safe way to dismount.
We’ve virtually forgotten about the preachers today. The people who kept warning us that drug abuse is a method that the devil uses to ruin lives that could otherwise shine for the Lord’s sake. But the preachers were why we had few drug abuse problems in America in 1900.
If we are merely secular, there isn’t going to be any good way to keep the hazards of drug abuse at bay. At worst we can have fig leaves. We can crack down arbitrarily on street drugs, but then doctors will prescribe mother’s little helpers.
A drug problem is really a no-God problem. People refusing to embrace God and looking for illusions to fulfill their craving for what is transcendent.
It’s the best avenue for getting rid of medications of those who have recently passed on.
I remember a friend thinking it might be party time, till I told him to start looking up what they actually do: “this one makes you pee more ... this one was to make your Dad’s blood not clot as much, so for you, you’ll bruise a lot easier ... remember this one, half the time your Dad took it, he threw up in about a half hour, there’s a party, huh...”
Most or all pharmacies can do this for you now. If you want, you can put them in an unlabeled bottle. They are destroyed as hazmat.
It actually does make some sense, but my local pharmacy has taken unused/unwanted/expired prescriptions off my hands without any government funding as far as I know.
Would you rather it enters the water supply when flushed? I wouldn’t.
no, put them in the refrigerator for SHTF
Well... in some places you could get in dutch for the unlabeled bottle. Do whatever is wise. I doubt the pharmacy will check. But why wasn’t there a public service announcement about what pharmacies can do? It would be easier to avail oneself of.
The Feds have no authority to do this.
Some of the worst for nature are not even specially controlled substances, like hormones.
Bingo. Especially antibiotics.
The DOJ and the VA did a major survey and test of stocks of “expired” drugs in their inventory, as practice had been to dispose of them after their expiration date, though in practice many were in supply after those dates, some much longer.
The study, exhaustive, showed the active ingredients in most of the “expired drugs” had viability levels within the standards for the drugs when issued.
Where do the “expiration dates” come from. The law requires that drug manufacturers give them expiration dates, but with thousands of drugs there is no standard in the law for how to set the dates. The dates are most often merely the earliest very conservative date possible - to save the drug companies legal grief. But, even the medical profession knows most of the drugs “effectiveness” has not expired.
Based on that survey, in a money saving measure, DOJ and VA quit dumping expired drugs except in the most extreme cases.
When my wife died CVS wanted to charge me $25 a package, they supplied the package and determined what I could put in it, to dispose of her left over meds.
I don’t do drugs-prescription or illicit-so I have none to dispose of-but if you do have any-especially antibiotics-saving them in the fridge for SHTF day makes total sense...
The point of responsible disposal is not that the drugs are no longer effective. If they really were “expired”, as in lost all effectiveness, there would be no issue with disposing them. The issue, as to disposal, is that in most cases they are still active chemically, and introduce the antibiotics and chemicals into the water systems and water table, increasing the “germs” resistance to antibiotics in particular.
Huh. I haven’t seen Walgreens be this way, but that doesn’t mean it couldn’t change.
A lot of people will end up flushing. This might be one of the things suitable for state (not Fed) subsidy.
Wonder how many drugs are particularly harmful substances, whether taken by the wrong person or put into the environment. Bet it’s very few.
How about giving unused drugs to a company that verifies the drugs and then offers them for resale?
I would never pay anyone to dispose of my used drugs.
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