COLLECTION OF UN-USED OR EXCESS MEDICINE FROM PATIENTS OR TAKECARES.

 

Medicines play an important role in treating many conditions and diseases and when they are no longer needed it is important to dispose of them properly to help reduce harm from accidental exposure or intentional misuse. Below, we list some options and special instructions for you to consider when disposing of expired, unwanted, or unused medicines.

 

           The expiration date is not a date that the drug stops being effective or potentially becomes toxic. It is a date, required by law, that the manufacturer can guarantee greater than 90% original potency of the medication. There really isn’t incentive for pharmaceutical companies to extend the expiration dates, as it is profitable for patients to throw away expired medications and replace them with new prescriptions.

There are many ways to collect the unused or excess drugs from Patients/ Consumers/ takecares. the major some important way for collection are as follows.

By Pharmacy store:-

Pharmacy store can except the excess or un-used medicine before their expiry of medicine and store keeper distribute some refunds about 60-80% of their amount of medicine. The pharmacy store can make available of those medicine to the other patients with high discount.

By Local Club:-

Local club can make Medicine take-back programs are a good way to safely collection of most types of unneeded/ unused medicines. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) periodically hosts National Prescription Drug Take-Back events where collection sites are set up in communities nationwide for safe disposal of prescription drugs.

By Local Municipality:-

Local municipality make available site for regular collection, segregations and safe disposal of expired medicines and the unexpired/ unused/ excess drugs are also redistributed to need one on heavy discount of free of cost.

Returning your unwanted medicines to a take-back program is the safest and most environmentally protective way to dispose of unused medication. Unwanted medicines should be disposed of properly like other household hazardous wastes.

Protect your kids and keep your family safe by storing your medicines securely at home. When you have medicines that are expired or unwanted, use a medicine take-back program – it’s the safest way to dispose of unused medication.