Ass to ass?

Returned but unopened blister packs of medications should, in theory, be just the same as blister packs that sat on a shelf or in a stock room for a really long time. It sounds like sensationalism, but the problem is that in the event of recalls or tampering, you really can't have medications from different batches or shipments or whatever just mixed together all willy nilly.

They filtered them out of the bloodstreams of deceased patients?

This is the type of stupid, humorless, and base headline I always expect to show up when I am introducing Fark to someone. I tell them it is a supersmart, witty, funny crowdsourcer and then submitard goes and throws up a juvenile, piece-of-trash headline like this.

Well today I wasn't selling Fark so we're good.

gadian: The only problem I had with this is repackaging them and selling them as new. Why waste the meds? Put them in a new bottle and sell them out at a discount.

B-b-b-b-but, they could be three days past expiration, which means they lose all effectiveness and can actually CAUSE the ailments they're meant to remedy! You HAVE to but them when they're more expen-- i mean, when they're new and SAFE!

Mort, do these suppoositories come in other flavors?

John Napkintosh: Returned but unopened blister packs of medications should, in theory, be just the same as blister packs that sat on a shelf or in a stock room for a really long time. It sounds like sensationalism, but the problem is that in the event of recalls or tampering, you really can't have medications from different batches or shipments or whatever just mixed together all willy nilly.

They were charging twice for the medicationsgadian: The only problem I had with this is repackaging them and selling them as new. Why waste the meds? Put them in a new bottle and sell them out at a discount.

This is really frustrating to me. I destroy tens of thousands of dollars of unopened and untaken medication every year and I'm just one hospice nurse. We could send them to Doctors Without Boarders or the Red Cross. We could send them to vets to give to people who can't afford medications for their pets.

I would love to see a program where a family could donate a deceased person's unused medications to someone who can't afford their medications, but it's never going to happen. It would make too much sense.

August11: This is the type of stupid, humorless, and base headline I always expect to show up when I am introducing Fark to someone. I tell them it is a supersmart, witty, funny crowdsourcer and then submitard goes and throws up a juvenile, piece-of-trash headline like this.

Well today I wasn't selling Fark so we're good.

Pardon me good sir but this is Fark. We do not sell caviar here we sell polished turds.

//Fark staff........not really fark staff.

Meh, most of the charitable donations from medical supply companies (that my wife worked at) are expired product. It's a great way to get a tax break. WAIT don't toss that returned or expired product . . . Ship it to Africa!

Corporations . . . is there anything they can't wont do?



This never ending crap is making me want to vomit

Marcintosh: Meh, most of the charitable donations from medical supply companies (that my wife worked at) are expired product. It's a great way to get a tax break. WAIT don't toss that returned or expired product . . . Ship it to Africa!

Corporations . . . is there anything they can't wont do?



This never ending crap is making me want to vomit

Most meds are good for a good 3 to 7 years after the ex date.
It is the law they have to put the ex date 1 year after it was made.
It is most likely the meds are still good and useable.

"Most of what is known about drug expiration dates comes from a study conducted by the Food and Drug Administration at the request of the military. With a large and expensive stockpile of drugs, the military faced tossing out and replacing its drugs every few years. What they found from the study is 90% of more than 100 drugs, both prescription and over-the-counter, were perfectly good to use even 15 years after the expiration date. "

When my grandfather died of cancer, the first thing the hospice people did was clear out the unused morphine patches. Where they wound up is anybody's guess.

West_Side_Charlie: When my grandfather died of cancer, the first thing the hospice people did was clear out the unused morphine patches. Where they wound up is anybody's guess.

On their arm of course....no they give them to people/clients who can't afford them, undercover because it's against the law to do so.

kinkkerbelle: John Napkintosh: Returned but unopened blister packs of medications should, in theory, be just the same as blister packs that sat on a shelf or in a stock room for a really long time. It sounds like sensationalism, but the problem is that in the event of recalls or tampering, you really can't have medications from different batches or shipments or whatever just mixed together all willy nilly.

They were charging twice for the medicationsgadian: The only problem I had with this is repackaging them and selling them as new. Why waste the meds? Put them in a new bottle and sell them out at a discount.

This is really frustrating to me. I destroy tens of thousands of dollars of unopened and untaken medication every year and I'm just one hospice nurse. We could send them to Doctors Without Boarders or the Red Cross. We could send them to vets to give to people who can't afford medications for their pets.

I would love to see a program where a family could donate a deceased person's unused medications to someone who can't afford their medications, but it's never going to happen. It would make too much sense.

Hospice is opiates and benzos which cost more to reuse than to just send new ones across borders through proper channels. Now if every patient is getting modafinil because they're sleepy and antibiotics in spite of being hospice, that's real money but probably a bit silly depending on whether your definition of hospice is connotative or denotative.

/sends prepared, beyond bud yet potent ivabx to Romania quarterly
//gmp, usp, and board only applies to this country and this state
///for now
//50lbs per box, please

West_Side_Charlie: When my grandfather died of cancer, the first thing the hospice people did was clear out the unused morphine patches. Where they wound up is anybody's guess.

There's your first problem, "morphine" patches.

How are you to properly abuse it without knowing the active ingredient?

I bet if you said you'd be happy to flush the Duragesic, they'd have let you smoke them.

Go ahead and reuse mine, I just stored the refrigerated ones on the counter, warmed to 100degF by the sun coming through the window.

Storage environment makes a difference.
Would you use drugs not properly stored?
Here in Las Vegas I won't use drugs by mail cause my outdoor post box does hit 130+ in the sun.

One of the reasons unused drugs must be discarded is because possession of a prescription drug that isn't in your name is illegal. If the drug is a controlled substance, you face additional penalties. I doubt many people are going to try and prosecute you for having prescription blood thinner on you, but you sure as shiat will get prosecuted for things like Oxycodone, Xanax, etc. Think about how much more medication would be ordered 'for the patient' if you weren't required to destroy the drugs when they got old..