It is nice to know someone cares about our environment but lets just hope we do not get to soon hear next of a pharmacy worker caught with someone elses prescription because we all know it is hard to find an honest person out there and we know that any one that has access to medicines like that can get a quick drug addiction and money hungry to go out and sell it to the right person for cash.So all this is good if all the unused medicines make it to Texas and gets properly disposed.
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I would be nice if there was some way to re-use them for those who cannot afford them. Too many possible problems with that though.
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I was just thinking it would be real nice if they could recycle some of these meds. I doubt if will ever happen tho. Well at least we thought good intentions.
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When my grandmother was dying in a nursing home, she was waiting on a prescription for liquid oxymorphone for her pain. The nursing home was in Lancaster and the pharmacy they dealt with was in Philly. She had to wait most of the day, in pain, for her meds. Meanwhile one of the nurses was dumping the exact same drug down the drain that belonged to another resident who died.

DEA rules. No transferring of prescriptions, especially narcotics. Now I don't a problem with the spirit of that law, but it does seem ridiculous in a controlled care environment like that.

Grandma finally got her meds, but watching a loved one writhe in pain for hours while someone is pouring her "comfort" down the drain certainly raised my hackles.

I would certainly be interested in know how many millions of dollars of perfectly good meds are destroyed each year.
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