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HOW TO PROPERLY DISPOSE
OF YOUR UNUSED MEDICINES
3 Message from the Editor Unused or expired prescription medications are a public safety issue, leading to potential accidental
poisoning, misuse, and overdose. Proper disposal of unused drugs saves lives and protects the environment.
4 15 Individuals Arrested on Federal Drug Trafficking and If no disposal instructions are given on the prescription
Drug Disposal Guidelines
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drug labeling and no prescription drug take-back
program is available in your area, then follow these
Firearms Charges simple steps to throw the drugs in the household trash:
1. Remove the medicine from its original container and
mix it with an undesirable substance, such as used
coffee grounds or kitty litter.
2. Place the mixture in a sealable bag, empty bag, or
5 Methamphetamine Seizures Rise in DEA’s Omaha other container to prevent medicine from leaking
or breaking out of a garbage bag.
Visit the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA)
website (www.deatakeback.com) or call (800) 882-9539
Division for more information and to find an authorized collection Additional Tips
in your community. The site also provides valuable
information about DEA’s National Take-Back Initiative.
Scratch out all identifying information on the prescription
drug to make it unreadable. This will help to protect your
6 How to Properly Dispose of Your Unused Medicine Resources identity and the privacy of your personal health information.
For more information on preventing prescription
You must not share your prescription drugs –
they were prescribed to you.
drug misuse, go to the following websites:
www.dea.gov
www.getsmartaboutdrugs.com Can I Flush Medicine
7 Why D.A.R.E. - The Most Comprehensive Drug www.justthinktwice.com Down the Sink or Toilet?
www.campusdrugprevention.gov
If the abovementioned disposal options are not readily
For more information on the safe disposal of
pharmaceuticals, go to the following websites: available, one option is to flush the medicines down the
sink or toilet as soon as they are no longer needed. Some
Environmental Protection Agency
Prevention Curricula in the World How to Dispose of Medicines Properly communities may prohibit this practice out of concern over
the trace levels of drug residues found in rivers, lakes, and
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community drinking water supplies.
Food and Drug Administration
Disposal of Unused Medicines: What You Should Know Do not flush medicines down the sink or toilet unless
the prescription drug labeling or patient information that
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10 More Than Four Pounds of Fentanyl Lead To Prison How to Dispose of Unused Medicines accompanied the medicine specifically instructs you to do so.
Please also ensure you are compliant with your community’s
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laws and regulations prior to taking such action.
Sources: Environmental Protection Agency, How to Dispose of Medicines Properly, 2011: Food and Drug Administration, Disposal of Unused 3 / 2018
Medicines: What You Should Know, 2017.
For Two Men
10 Portland Nurse Charged With Drug Trafficking
12 Multiple Sentences Imposed in Massive Synthetic
Narcotics Distribution Network 7
13 Trafficker Indicted For Transporting Heroin Inside
Car Battery
14 Transnational Drug Trafficker Sentenced To 25 Years For
Conspiracy To Distribute Fentanyl, Heroin,
Methamphetamine, and Cocaine and For
Money Laundering
15 Prescriptions for Disaster - How Teens Misuse Medicine 28
28 Memorial Section - Officer Deaths
30 Memorial Section - K9 Deaths
31 Wanted Fugitives
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