href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/09/AR2007030901894.html">Don't
flush your old prescriptions, or other medications.
They end up in the water, and that is bad. Just
throw them away. If you are concerned about someone digging
through your trash, then mix them with used kitty litter or some other
noxious substance.
Also, remember that those prescription labels have personal information
of them. You might want to obliterate that before you throw
out the bottles.
And of course, the federal government has
href="http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/drugfact/factsht/proper_disposal.html">official
guidelines for disposal of medications.
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A little more on the topic of ear infections, from Forbes:
In 2014, more than 28,000 people in the U.S. died from an opioid overdose. That same year, more Americans died from drug overdoses than during any other year on record, with the escalating numbers fueled by opioid abuse.
One of the standard conservatarian responses to anyone suggesting government-funded universal health care is to start talking about how universal health care will inevitably lead to faceless, heartless bureaucrats denying or delaying treatment for stupid reasons.
Roy, writing at Shrink Rap, has a post about the
prospect of online access to prescription records in the State of
California. The attorney general is proposing a database of
all prescription records, that could be accessed by doctors and
pharmacists.
If we could just stop all these patients who are constantly "accidentally" flushing them.
Oh, you get those stories too? I thought I was the only one.
I haven't live in the USA for yonks, so please forgive me if this is a "stupid" question, but: Are there any warnings on the label?
I completely concur it's a dumb dumb thing to do, but what efforts are being made to remind people not to do it--especially at the time they are likely to do it, years and years (probably) after the prescription was handed out and someone heard the warnings...?
No, there is no warning label for that. Most Rx's have several stickers on them that nobody seems to read anyway, so there probably is no point. It is not a bad idea, it's just that it is hard to get people to pay attention.