THE COST OF PRESCRIPTION RANT

This RANT actually hit me out of the blue last week when I was doing something very benign, getting rid of useless stuff. (My wife may disagree on the benign.)

As always I was trying to create space and get rid of things we no longer needed, and had the brainstorm to get rid of old medications. What a FREAKIN CHORE! I don't know how many of you have "DISPOSED" of old medications, but I am sure many of us should! IT WOULD OPEN YOUR EYES! While reducing your healthcare out of pocket expense.

Hell, what I thought was going to be a 10 min task took many hours of gathering, identifying, and then researching proper disposal methods. When all was said and done I had a FREEZER BAG FULL, of the oddest collection of  WHITE PILLS, TAN PILLS, PAIN PILLS, DOWNERS, ANTIBIOTICS and a lot of CRAP I didn't even recognize! Damn, if the police raided my house they would've thought I was a pusher! (Hhhmm,where are my sunglasses anyway?)

Now the interesting part. You would think, hey I'll just flush them down the toilet and be done. No Problem..WRONG! I started looking at this DRUG DEALERS DREAM of a FREEZER BAG, and started to feel guilty. What if 1,000,000. other people were doing the same thing, flushing drugs  in addition to the PUSHERS with the cops at the door, What affect would it have on our water supply???? Would we have fish with two heads?? How about gigantic turtles with teeth, or woodland creatures with 6 legs?? Would we get high or have a rush every time we drank tap water?? (Maybe not soo bad. Oopps, sorry, digressed to a younger age) The guilt was overwhelming!!! I had to do something to prevent this, but what?? I know I'll GOOGLE disposal methods. (What else would you do?)

While researching disposal methods I did find some interesting facts. You shouldn't FLUSH medications unless it specifically says so on the bottle. (Didn't know you were going to learn something did you?) When disposing of medication in the trash you should do as I did and put them in a large sealable bag so they don't leach out, and mix them with used coffee grounds, or egg shells to make them unappealing to animals or children. (I feel animals also applies to druggies going through your trash)

Well, after PREPARING the PACKAGE as directed I didn't feel quite so guilty of disposing of it, but I still felt guilty about all the wasted money that was spent on this POTPOURRI of medications. If I wasn't going to use the medication I shouldn't have filled the prescriptions. Hey, before you all start criticizing, I'll bet you all do the same thing, so just take a 2 year old pill and calm down:)


Are you sure you can't take a 2-5 year old medication? I just keep thinking about the money! Well maybe the fish too.

                                                I'M DONE (or going through withdrawl)