First, the drug recovery point
In a community with a special collection point for expired drugs, we can sort out the expired drugs at home and send them to the collection box. Relevant personnel will regularly clean up the drugs in the box and then destroy them in a unified way.
Second, go to the hospital or pharmacy.
If there is no drug recycling point in the community, you can consult a pharmacy or hospital. Some pharmacies or 3A hospitals recycle expired drugs. Some hospitals can provide yellow medical garbage bags to recycle expired drugs and then destroy them uniformly.
Third, self-handling methods.
If you can't find a drug recycling point, you can only handle it yourself. For ordinary tablets, you can first soak them in water and then pour them into the toilet to wash them away. The capsule should be broken first, and the particles in it should be dissolved in water and then poured into the toilet to be washed away. Spray should avoid contact with open flames, completely empty the contents, and then discard the bottle. Before handling antibiotics, tumor drugs and other special drugs, doctors or pharmacists should be consulted to avoid environmental pollution.
In fact, the best way to reduce and eliminate expired drugs is to purchase drugs reasonably and use drugs safely. Drugs should be bought while using. Don't buy a lot of medicine at once, clean the small medicine box at home regularly.
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Harm of expired drugs
Expired drugs are not only worthless, but also cause a lot of harm, mainly in the following aspects. ：
Start medication? Drugs that have expired due to safety problems may not only lose their original therapeutic effects, but also produce substances harmful to the human body due to changes in internal quality. If people use expired drugs, it may delay the treatment opportunity, cause other health damage and even threaten life safety.
According to the provisions of the Drug Administration Law, expired drugs are inferior drugs, and production and sales are prohibited. However, some lawless elements recycle expired drugs at low prices, change the packaging, sell them to hospitals, pharmacies and some unlicensed clinics in remote areas through illegal channels, and then flow back into the hands of consumers, which seriously endangers the public's health and life safety.
2. causing environmental pollution problems? Improper handling of expired drugs will have a certain impact on the environment. On the one hand, discarding expired drugs directly may pollute the environment. According to relevant surveys, most people treat expired drugs and ordinary domestic garbage equally and discard them without any treatment. The components in drugs are easy to cause pollution when dispersed into the environment, and some drugs with special properties, such as strong allergenicity and volatile drugs, have more serious pollution to the environment;
On the other hand, the destruction of expired drugs may also pollute the environment. Due to the high cost of professional environmental destruction facilities and services, relevant departments, units and consumers often burn expired drugs in the open air in the garbage dump, which is bound to cause harm to the environment.
3. Waste of resources? No matter for the country or ordinary consumers, the number of medical expenses can not be underestimated, and all aspects are trying to reduce medical expenses. A large number of expired drugs not only have no use value, but also need to invest manpower, material resources and financial resources to deal with them, resulting in a waste of resources.
Specific treatment methods for expired drugs:
Disposal of expired drugs Expired drugs become "harmful drugs", which are also manifested in being thrown into the garbage bin together with domestic garbage without any treatment, which not only induces diseases to endanger human health and pollute the environment, but also can be imagined if they fall into the hands of criminals and flow to rural markets or return to pharmacies.
It can be seen that cleaning up expired drugs does not mean throwing them away casually.
1. For expired drugs at home, they should be included in a special collection and destruction system like recycling used batteries.
2, tablets, pills, capsules, drugs, should be wrapped in paper, and then put in a closed paper tube to discard;
3, eye drops, topical medicine, oral liquid and other liquid preparations of drugs, should be in the case of not mixing with each other, respectively, into the sewer washed away;
4, ointment preparation drugs, ointment should be squeezed from the container, collected in an envelope, sealed and discarded;
5, spraying drugs should be in a place with good outdoor air circulation, in the case of avoiding contact with open flames, completely empty;
6, injection, water injection drugs don't open without authorization, should be completely packed together with it, put it in a closed paper tube and throw it away.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-expired drugs