Posts Tagged ‘medicine cabinet’
National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day
One of the tasks resulting from my mother’s recent passing is the disposal of her prescription medications.
While researching the best way to do this, I discovered that April 28, 2012, is National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day. Sponsored by the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day gives consumers an opportunity to safely dispose of prescription drugs so that they don’t affect the environment or fall into the hands of children or abusers. You can find more information on the DEA website, including a Collection Site Locator.
If none of those collection sites are near you, try Dispose My Meds, which also features a site locator. Thanks to this site, I was able to locate a participating pharmacy which is a short walk from my home. I called them to ask if we should pour all the medications into a plastic bag, but they specified that they prefer for me to bring them in their original prescription bottles.
Take some time now to go through your medicine cabinet and see what you can dispose of.
A Cautionary Tale about Q-Tips
My mother called me the other day to tell me that she had 750 Q-tips and was hoping I would agree to take some of them off her hands.
Here’s how it happened. My mother noticed that the package of 300 Q-tips that she purchased at Walgreen’s quite a number of years ago was almost empty. However, she was determined to buy a smaller package, since she and my dad use them up so slowly, and, like most of us in New York City, have limited storage space.
She went to Walgreen’s and saw a package of 500. Too big! At CVS, she found a package in the cosmetics area — 100 Q-tips for $ 2.49. Perfect!
But they had Q-tips over in the skin care aisle as well, and there she found the package of 750 Q-tips. (It was supposed to be a package of 500 but was marked “Get 50% more at the same price!”) The price for this bounty? $ 3.49.