{"id":9953,"date":"2018-03-27T07:55:47","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T11:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=9953"},"modified":"2018-03-27T07:55:47","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T11:55:47","slug":"disposal-of-unused-medicines-what-you-should-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=9953","title":{"rendered":"Disposal of Unused Medicines: What You Should Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Source &#8211; www.fda.gov)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial;\">Medicines play an important role in treating many conditions and diseases and when they are no longer needed it is important to dispose of them properly to help reduce harm from accidental exposure or intentional misuse. Below, we list some options and special instructions for you to consider when disposing of expired, unwanted, or unused medicines. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/Drugs\/ResourcesForYou\/Consumers\/BuyingUsingMedicineSafely\/EnsuringSafeUseofMedicine\/SafeDisposalofMedicines\/ucm186187.htm?utm_campaign=CDER%20New%203%2F27&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Eloqua&amp;elqTrackId=bcf9ebdaf2b04b80ad81b669acc5a47d&amp;elq=d6ee48ca7b284f4abb9bf69e6fb36e23&amp;elqaid=2942&amp;elqat=1&amp;elqCampaignId=2167\">Continue reading instructions here&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/FDA-logo3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7883\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/FDA-logo3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"179\" height=\"181\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Source &#8211; www.fda.gov) Medicines play an important role in treating many conditions and diseases and when they are no longer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fda","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9954,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9953\/revisions\/9954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}