Medication Disposal - Training Module - Reason 1: Stolen Meds
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- Published: Monday, 06 June 2016 10:10
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Why Drug Disposal is Important
There are three main reasons why safer means of disposal are needed.
1. The first is that pills thrown in the trash could be stolen by people with the intention of using or selling them illegally.
More Americans now die every year from drug overdoses than they do in car crashes. And most of those deaths aren’t due to drugs like cocaine or heroin – but rather prescription drugs. In 2013 alone, overdoses from prescription pain medications killed more than 16,000 Americans. And most young people who begin misusing prescription drugs don’t buy them in some dark alley – they get them from the medicine cabinet.