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How often do you purge your medicine cabinet? You should plan to clean through your cabinet and properly dispose of any medications every six months. Using expired medications can be hazardous to your health. Therefore, you should not be saving unused prescription medications for later use, nor be saving expired prescription or over-the-counter medications.
Tina Zook, Pharmacy Director at NorthShore, provides the following instructions for properly disposing of medications:
There will be instances where instructions are not given on the drug label and a drug take-back program is not available. In these cases, you follow the following steps for disposing of medications:
How often do you clean your medicine cabinet? What has your process been for disposing of medications?