Disposal of expired medications?

Question

Can anyone tell me where I can dispose off old and expired medications and other pharmaceuticals, in and around the Bay Area (San Francisco Bay Area, California)?

Thanks

Answer 1

don't flush

Answer 2

Send all painkillers to me, dont need any blood pressure meds and such, thanx

Answer 3

DO NOT FLUSH them!  The water treatment plants CANNOT handle them.  If you have cats, just mix the drugs in with kitty liter and dispose of them in the trash, or take them back to the pharmacy.

Answer 4

You can take old meds to any pharmacy and they will dispose of them properly for you.

Answer 5

Flush them down the toilet, they will melt and mix with 100's of thousands of gallons of water a it won't hurt the environment in anyway.

I know this sound unhealthy, but its the best way. Good luck

Answer 6

Just flush the oral medications down the toilet and throw the others in the trash.. Since they were designed for human consumption at home they do not constitute any bio-hazard. If any required special disposal, it would be on the label.

Answer 7

Flushing them is dangerous to the enviorment., No wonder our planet is screwed up. you people actually think if you dispose of your drugs by flushing them that it wont hurt anybody.  

Stop the insanity.

Mix with cat litter and dispose of in the trash. at least the kitty litter may absorb the drugs. either way it still ends up in the enviorment but better than poisoning the water system directly.

Answer 8

Any drug store. The can get rid of these in the proper FDA regulated ways. Thank you for doing this the RIGHT way!!!

Answer 9

Bring them back to the Drug Store where you purchased them

Some stores provide this service

Answer 10

I flush mine down the toilet.  If you can't do that, then I would call the hospital, they may have a bio hazard dump.