“Use your medications as prescribed, if you don’t, you are turning them into drugs” (Wilfredo Santa) . It is illegal to lend, share, or sell your medications.

Know their names, effects, proper use, misuse, and illegal use. Your doctor and pharmacy will undoubtedly tell you how and for how long to use them, as well as the nature of their temporary use (all are for short-term use), so they will prescribe small or minimal amounts. exclusively. for the conditions listed.

A high number of patients have the tendency to misused medications and by doing that slowly turning their medications into drugs. How? By making decisions contrary to those indicated by their doctors, like,taking them for less time or for longer than indicated. Likewise, the offering of their medications “pastillitas” to relatives or neighbors has become a deeply ingrained cultural or popular behavior.

You should know that by doing that you are acting as a physician, since by offering your prescribed medications to others, your action ” is an act of prescribing “, and hence morally and legally, you are assuming all the consequences of that actions, at that moment you are over your head, and it is illegal, whether or not it is a controlled drug, but the fact that if it is controlled constitutes an even more serious crime.

In this summary, I emphasized to you that the side effects of these drugs and their interaction with any other prescribed drugs that you “lend” or recommend, can potentially create severe harm, including damages which can lead to death.

It is absolutely forbidden to store medicines in your home, beyond the time or dates indicated for their use, apart from the fact that they expire and can no longer be used, by storing them, even if they are locked up, or in places not accessible to children, they represents a great danger at home.

When children are curious, they look for a way to reach them, for the elderly they are even more dangerous. Why? Because most of them can have sensory losses, their ability to see, hear, etc., could be impaired. Confusion ensues and intake medication errors are known risk, if occurs it can affect your health or cause critical accidents. As humans we all need supervision, having someone, or some organization, government agency, etc. supervising it is considered as ” a most, and very healthy for all of us “.

DO NOT STORE expired medications, check all your meds expiring dates, regularly, have another person performed a second review. Do not use over the counter medications, without consulting your physician, specially if you have any medical condition and do not forget that OCM ( Over The Counter Medications, equally expire and equally as chemical products,have side effects) .

Government Agencies most make sure that every pharmacy have a “Standard Protocol” to received expired medications brought to them, since pharmacies sell them, is logical and easier, for their ” local clients” to bring them there. Government Agencies most continue their closed supervision on ” Smaller Pharmacies as well as on Huge Pharmacies Chains Corporation’s protocols for distribution, and standard disposal process of prescribed expired and over the counter medications. Why? Handling astronomical quantities and varieties of medications and other chemical products, returned to their selling companies after they expired, involving a complex process of perhaps millions of pick up trips, their routes, all kinds of transporting vehicles and vessels, until disposal centers are finally reached, is a huge complex maze, in there, I quote myself -”If anything is prone to get lost,it will”- (Wilfredo Santa).

Recently while waiting on a line, keeping distance and masks on at all times , I heard two persons apparently working on the same ( Drugs Medications Distribution) company, exchanging emotions while talking loud enough, about- ” how it was possible that their supervisors allowed the mixed content of the constantly incoming vans ( including ODC, pills, tablets, detergents,etc) to be thrown in the company’s industrial crushing machine, adding that they could not believe that their company owners or CEO were blatantly knowingly braking the law, for years? They were visibly angry.

Please read more on the included DEA link.

Read more at the following link…

www.dea.gov/documents/2018/2018-10/2018-10-04/how-properly-dispose-