LostShopper
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Reged: 05/10/02
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Loc: Deep South
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Do any of you know any agencies that can use unused meds? it just seems a shame that we have a precription filled, then suddenly are changed to something else and it's just left sitting there. I asked our local nursing home this morning and they refuse to take them. I'd like to help out if possible but have no idea if any agency would accept something like this. I spent too much to toss 'em or let them sit there past exp. when there has to be somewhere they can be used. Like an idiot, I was in so much pain and so desperate that I foolishly ordered hydros from a reliable private source, and wouldn't you know that yesterday afternoon my oncologist rx'd MsContin? Thank goodness, because I believe the hydro was getting to my stomach - but that's another topic altogether.
Anyway, if anyone has links to anywhere that could or would use unused meds, please post or PM. I have done searches but come up with nothing so far.
Thanks in advance.
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lemongrass
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Reged: 09/23/03
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Loc: IL
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Nope! None that I'm aware of. Like you, I felt the same way after being prescribed one thing that didn't work or was allergic to and then having to go on something else. I called the pharm and asked if they wanted them back. For security/hygenic purposes, they can't do so. Honestly, I don't think anyone will. Sorry.
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night_shade
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Loc: The State of Hockey
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I second what Lemongrass said. With the threat of terrorism and sanitary issues, NOBODY would accept donated medications. In fact, it is ILLEGAL to transfer a prescribed medication to someone other than for whom it was prescribed.
Flush em, or give em to someone you know could use them.
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sigmund
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Reged: 07/29/03
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Loc: Vienna
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From my experience, the only place(s) that will consider taking them are research units affiliated with large university hospitals. They have the laboratory facilities to check for contamination. A friend recently donated about $500 of Memantine, the new Alzheimers med to a neurological research facility.
Another possbility is to call the Dept. of Pharmacy Sciences at a research university to ask which unit to call and whether their facility would be interested.
Hope this helps.
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LostShopper
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Reged: 05/10/02
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Loc: Deep South
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Thank you for the replies and suggestions. I did call my local pharmacist, whom I know very well, and was told the same thing - they cannot take them back.
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PrivateRealm
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Reged: 03/18/03
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Loc: usa
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I wish I knew as I always flush mine. Once I cleaned out my cabinet when I was going of so many meds and flushed hundreds of pills. I don't like having meds that aren't being used around the house.
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LostShopper
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PRealm, I am like you - I purge them often. Within the past couple of years, between all the changes in blood pressure and diabetes meds my husband has been changed off/on, I regularly do a "clean out". However, this is different - You and I both know that there are people (Like the nursing home - i keep coming back to that) who could use them...Like the time my husband got 50cc insulin syringes, 200 of them, and then had to go with 100cc. I went out and asked, and the woman at the nursing home wouldn't take them! They were not only still boxed, but each individual syringe was plastic-sealed as well. Same thing when he changed from Zantac to Nexuim. I had about 100 fresh Zantacs. It's just too bad that, what with so many of us in this country struggling so hard to provide ourselves health and prescription care, we can't help others when we find ourselves with something we can't use. Of course, I do understand why - there are nuts out there who would or COULD contaminate a product, and for an agency to test products the cost would be so high, plus it is against the law to dispense your rx to another person, but still..... I take so much stuff to the nursing home (NOT meds), guess I'm still disappointed that they weren't even interested enough to say "Thanks for thinking of us".
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yawkaw3
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Reged: 03/22/03
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The yawkaw agency accepts unused meds...*ahem* 
-yawkaw
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jjt6
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Reged: 07/20/02
Posts: 48
Loc: South
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Very good, is it tax deductable?
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