How do you properly dispose of not needed narcotics?

The pharmacy won’t take them back.
I had surgery and I used four of the tablets. I have 76 left. There are traces of drugs in the water supply so I won’t flush them.

Discard to the landfill.

12 Responses to “How do you properly dispose of not needed narcotics?”

  1. wizjp Says:

    Discard to the landfill.
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  2. cspanny Says:

    sell them
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  3. The Breeze Says:

    If they are something good, send them to me.
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  4. Scott Says:

    With a large swallow of Bourbon!
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  5. arc Says:

    toilet
    resell, sell it to someone you will never see again forsure
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  6. arhod9 Says:

    Well, some people dump them down the toilet. Not a good choice, goes into the water system. Read (past tense there) about it.
    Throw it into the trash, well, it will stay there for about a 100 years or so unless you live in say, an earthquake zone and then the landfill could get a crack and leak stuff out.
    Just throw them into the trash bottle and all don’t dump them out.
    Call the EPA? They won’t help, that was a joke.
    Do a web search and see how to properly dispose of them.
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  7. kill_yr_television Says:

    When I was nursing, we would dispose of them by flushing them down the toilet in front of witnesses and then document our actions.
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  8. Sweetharttt Says:

    Couldn’t the pharmacy just take them from you and put them in their garbage?

    I have been told not to do this, but put them into the toilet bowl and flush them down. Or, you can put them into a plastic bag, well secured, and wrap in layer after layer of newspaper and put into your regular garbage.
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  9. Eric P Says:

    Give them to me. I’ll take care of the rest.
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  10. Divide & Conquer Says:

    Keep them. You never know you might wish you had some narcotics around one day.
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  11. jslinderml Says:

    Contact your local hospital. Some have facilities for disposal. (Some send to a landfill, but at least you tried).

    This is actually a fairly significant problem that no one has a real answer for. Incineration is the best method that I’ve seen identified (and I don’t mean backyard, I mean serious heat to break down the compounds).
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  12. Diana B Says:

    I’d call the DEA, tell them that you want to dispose of an unused and unwanted controlled substance. I’d check their website as well.
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