The Conversation – What should you do with your unused medicine?

If you were to look in your kitchen or bathroom cabinet, the chances are you’d find some unused medicine.

Maybe you recovered from surgery more quickly than you expected, and didn’t take all the strong painkillers your doctor prescribed. Or perhaps you took a medicine so long ago that it’s expired, the cardboard packaging is disintegrating, and you can’t be certain what it was for in the first place.

This article from The Conversation was authored by scholars and researchers at Griffith University.

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